How I Found Livingstone
Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa, Including Four Months Residence with Dr. Livingstone (Abridged)
Published on 1. February 2010
465 pages
978-1-77651-155-6 (ISBN)
Description
Livingstone's 1840s expedition into Africa, the "e;Dark Continent"e;, caught the public's imagination. In 1864 he returned to Africa and all but disappeared. Public interest ran so high, that in 1869 the publisher of the New York Herald commissioned reporter Henry Stanley to go and find him. This book is Stanley's account of his adventure, and the moment he found Livingstone, in which he uttered the famous words: "e;Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"e;
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Chapter I - Introductory - My Instructions to Find and Relieve Livingstone
- Chapter II - Zanzibar
- Chapter III - Organization of the Expedition
- Chapter IV - Life at Bagamoyo
- Chapter V - Through Ukwere, Ukami, and Udoe to Useguhha
- Chapter VI - To Ugogo
- Chapter VII - Marenga Mkali, Ugogo, and Uyanzi, to Unyanyembe
- Chapter VIII - My Life and Troubles During My Residence in Unyas Nyembe - I Become Engaged in a War
- Chapter IX - My Life and Troubles in Unyanyembe (Continued)
- Chapter X - To Mrera, Ukonongo
- Chapter XI - Through Ukawendi, Uvinza, and Uhha, to Ujiji
- Chapter XII - Intercourse with Livingstone at Ujiji - Livingstone's Own Story of His Journeys, His Troubles, and Disappointments
- Chapter XIII - Our Cruise on the Lake Tanganika - Exploration of the North-End of the Lake - The Rusizi is Discovered to Enter i
- Chapter XIV - Our Journey from Ujiji to Unyanyembe
- Chapter XV - Homeward Bound - Livingstone's Last Words - The Final Farewell
- Chapter XVI - Valedictory
- Concluding Chapter
- Glossary
- Appendix
- Endnotes
