Through the Dark Continent: The Sources of the Nile Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa

Stanley, H M. Published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890


The New One Volume edition. Illustrated with 12 engraved full-page plates and with a profusion of woodblocks throughout as well as a folding map of equatorial Africa. "New Cheap Edition", xx, 658 pp, maps and b&w illustrations. Slight spotting to pages, otherwise in good condition for its age.


After the death of Livingstone, Stanley resolved to return to Africa and finish his work, and also to resolve some of the problems introduced by Burton and Speke.Livingstone considered it his mission to finish mapping and studying Central Africa, resolve some of the questions about the source of the Nile and to report on the doings of the slave traders, a practice that Livingstone spoke actively against. Criticized even a t the time for what many considered his harsh treatment of the natives, he did manage to finish what Livingstone had started and open up Central Africa to the west