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The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey through the Congo
The Last Expedition Stanley's Mad Journey through the Congo
Author: Daniel Liebowitz, Charles Pearson
A noble rescue mission descends into a nightmare of cruelty, starvation, and cannibalism, bringing to a close the European exploration of Africa. Henry Morton Stanley undertook the greatest African expedition of the nineteenth century to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan....  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393328738
ISBN-10: 0393328732
Publication Date: 7/17/2006
Pages: 320
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Historians will like this. A rescue mission gone bad---the horrors arise from the central character as much as the jungle. Stanley was long on passion and short on common sense. The last few chapters detailing the afterward are as dark as the rest of the book.


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