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Never-before-published documents from Henry Stanley¿s historic 1871 expedition to what is now Tanzania in search of David Livingstone recasts Stanley¿s sensationalized narrative with new details about the people involved, their systems of knowledge, commerce, and labor, the natural environment, and the spread of modern colonial powers in Africa.
About the author
Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi is curator of the Henry M. Stanley Archives and Collections at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium). With James L. Newman, she edited
Adventures of an American Traveler in Turkey by H.M. Stanley. Her past exhibitions include
Dr Livingstone, I Presume (2013). She is in charge of archives and history training programs for graduate students, archivists, and librarians from Central Africa.
James L. Newman is emeritus professor of geography at Syracuse University's Maxwell School. His previous works include
The Peopling of Africa: A Geographic Interpretation, Imperial Footprints: Henry M. Stanley's African Journey, Paths without Glory: Richard Francis Burton in Africa, and
Encountering Gorillas: A Chronicle of Discovery, Exploitation, Understanding, and Survival. He lives in Syracuse, New York.
Summary
Never-before-published documents from Henry Stanley’s historic 1871 expedition to what is now Tanzania in search of David Livingstone recasts Stanley’s sensationalized narrative with new details about the people involved, their systems of knowledge, commerce, and labor, the natural environment, and the spread of modern colonial powers in Africa.
