The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo (original 2005; edition 2005)

by Daniel Liebowitz

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Traces Henry Morton Stanley's three-year African expedition that was launched with the official intention of rescuing Emin Pasha, governor of the southern Sudan, in an account that reveals Stanley's secret agenda of territorial expansion.

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Chapter One: On December 10, 1886, a letter appeared in The Times of London in which Robert Felkin, a prominent Scottish physician who had traveled (sic scil travelled) extensively in Africa, implored the people of Britain to rally to the cause of a man with a distinctly un-British name, Dr. Mehemit Emin. he was the governor of Equatoria ...

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Traces Henry Morton Stanley's three-year African expedition that was launched with the official intention of rescuing Emin Pasha, governor of the southern Sudan, in an account that reveals Stanley's secret agenda of territorial expansion.

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