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I have her for sale a book entitled How I found Livingstone, travels, adventures and discoveries in Central Africa; including four months residence with dr. Livingstone by Henry M. Stanley. Published by Classics of exploration:
Time-Life books BV, Brussels, 1984. Facsimile reproduction of first edition of 1872, contains 4 maps, and a large fold-out Map.
Still tightly bound within luxury padded leather cover. Interior in nice clean condition. Bookplate.No names or inscriptions. All edges gilt, marbled end-papers, gilt titling to red labels on ribbed spine. "This leather-bound volume - has been photographically reproduced from the first edition published in 1872 and thus preserves the historical authenticity of the work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. Condition: Fine. 736 pages, 22 x 15 cm.
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I have here for sale a book entitled Missionary travels and researches in South Africa including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa by Livingstone, David. Published by London, Ward, Lock & Co., (1899). Original decorated cloth gilt. With portrait and photographic plates.
First published in 1857. - In 1852 Livingstone asked his family to join him in Africa. With the help of the Makololos, a South African tribe, Livingstone planned to explore the whole of southern Africa as far as Angola. The missionary had become an important explorer. As the first European, he traveled on the Zambezi to Kazembe in a pirogue, a fast water vessel made from a tree trunk. In order to escape from the slave traders of Portuguese Africa, Livingstone traveled via Cassange and Bihé to Luanda, a Portuguese port and the capital of Angola, where he arrived completely exhausted on 31 May, 1854. As soon as he had recovered from his fever, he undertook a trek to Lake Dilolo, discovered the source of the Kasai, a left tributary of the Congo, and arrived in Linyanti, the capital of the Makololos. In the course of the major Zambezi expedition that followed he discovered the Victoria Falls, the falls of the middle Zambezi, in 1855. Excellent in overall very good/fine condition. xv,617 pages, 20 x 14 cm. 67366803
