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by Tony Gould
| Hardback in Very Good condition with Dust Jacket in Good condition - not price clipped. Hamish Hamilton - 1979. Dust Jacket sunned on spine and front. 288 pages. 14.2cm x 22cm.
On 28 June 1887 Henry Stanley marched the advance column of his Emin Pasha Relief Expedition out of Yambuya Camp in the Congo Free State, saying to Major Barttelot, the man he put in charge of the rear column: 'Goodbye, Major; shall find you here in October when I return.' Stanley was leaving five Englishmen at Yambuya with 250 porters and the bulk of the Expedition's supplies, to be safeguarded for his return in four months time.
When Stanley finally returned fourteen months later, he found only one of his officers still there. Two were dead, a third invalided home, another stranded down the Congo river, and there were over a hundred graves at Yambuya.
It was an unmitigated disaster, but who was to blame? Stanley's reputation was on the line and the Victorian public were shocked at the accusatons from both sides...
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Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN: 0241101255
Condition: Very Good |
1979
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| Postage & Handling to UK mainland: £3.50 | Price: £5.00
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