Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi and James L. Newman, eds. Finding Dr. Livingstone: A History in Documents from the Henry Morton Stanley Archives. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2020. xvi + 542 pp. Photographs. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0821423660.
Abstract:Having finally met with Dr. David Livingstone in November 1871, the following year (1872), Henry Morton Stanley published the book titled How I Found Livingstone. This book included the most pertinent information on the orders from his boss at the New York Herald (James Gordon Bennett, Jr.) to find Livingstone; his overseas expeditions; and how he and Livingstone finally met at Ujiji, explored parts of Africa, and later parted ways. What was, however, missing to those with interest in the histories of precolon… Show more
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