Title: Finding Dr. Livingstone : a history in documents from the Henry Morton Stanley Archives /
Authors: Leduc-Grimaldi, Mathilde; Newman, James L.; Gryseels, Guido; Allard, D.; Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale
Year: 2020
Subjects: Stanley, Henry M. Travel Africa, Central Sources.; Livingstone, David, Sources.; Livingstone, David,; Stanley, Henry M.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers.; Discoveries in geography; Travel; Africa, Central Discovery and exploration Sources.; Africa, Central Description and travel Sources.; Central Africa
Abstract: "In 1871, American writer Henry M. Stanley traveled from Zanzibar to Tanganyika in search of the missing explorer Dr. David Livingstone at the behest of the New York Herald's impresario editor. In 1872, Stanley emerged from central Africa to announce that he had met with Livingstone on Tanganyika Lake, restored his health, and supplied his next journey. The words he presumably uttered upon meeting Livingstone became one of the most famous phrases of the nineteenth century, and his narrative of the trip, How I Found Livingstone, was an international bestseller. In Finding Dr. Livingstone, Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi and James L. Newman transcribe and annotate the entirety of Stanley's trip documentation, now owned by the Roi Baudouin Foundation in Brussels, Belgium. They thus make available in print for the first time a trove that includes worker contracts, vernacular plant names, maps, ruminations on life, lines of poetry, bills of lading-all scribbled in his field notebooks. This book is vastly more expansive and different in emphasis from Stanley's version, with invaluable insights into the experiences of his African carriers, soldiers, and servants. This book will be a crucial resource for those interested in the Victorian era, exploration, the scientific knowledge of the time, and the peoples and conditions of today's Tanzania prior to its colonization by Germany"--
Contents: Foreword / Guido Gryseels, RMCA -- Foreword / Dominique Allard, KBF -- Abbreviations and Editorial Notations -- Introduction -- Journal S.A. 73, Excerpts (January 1871-May 1872) -- Journal S.A. 7, Full Transcript (1871) -- Journal S.A. 11, Full Transcript (10 November 1871-Unyanyembe, 14 March 1872) -- Field Notebook S.A. 8, Full Transcript -- Field Notebook S.A. 9, Full Transcript -- Field Notebook S.A. 10, Full Transcript -- Account Book of the New York Herald Expedition into Central Africa (S.A. 74), Full Transcript -- Notebook S.A. 1, Excerpts for the Year 1871 -- Muster Roll of Soldiers Engaged for the New York Herald Central African Expedition (S.A. 74), Full Transcript -- Journal S.A. 12 to Zanzibar, Excerpts (May 29, 1872) -- Appendix (Full Transcripts and Excerpts) -- Contracts of Engagement of Employees for the Search for Livingstone -- Contract of Selim Heshmesh (S.A. 4734) -- Contract of Seedy Mubarak Bombay (S.A. 4744) -- Contract of Abdel Kader, Bunder Salaàm, Celim (S.A. 4745) -- Contract of W. L. Farquhar (S.A. 4746) -- Contract of Saboori Mkuba, Saboori Mdogo, and Kombo (S.A. 4748) -- Instructions to John W. Shaw (S.A. 2469) -- Journal S.A. 4, Excerpts (1869) -- Journal S.A. 5, Excerpts (1870) -- Letter of Introduction from John MacGregor to David Livingstone (S.A. 480) -- Letters from Francis R. Webb, American Consul in Zanzibar, to Stanley (S.A.2598, 2654, 2655, 2657) -- Letters from John Webb, American Consul in Zanzibar, to Stanley (S.A. 2658, 2659)