The Last Expedition
Subtitle: Stanley's Mad Journey through the Congo
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: July 17, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780393328738
First sentence: ON DECEMBER 10, 1886, a letter appeared in The Times of London in which Robert Felkin, a prominent Scottish physician who had traveled extensively in Africa, implored the people of Britain to rally to the cause of a man with a distinctly un-British name, Dr. Mehemet Emin.