In Darkest Africa, or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria, in Two Volumes

Complete in two hardcover volumes. xiv, 547; xvi, 540 pp. The complete account of one of the most famous (and infamous) African voyages of the nineteenth century. "The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1886 to 1889 was one of the last major European expeditions into the interior of Africa in the nineteenth century, ostensibly to the relief of Emin Pasha, General Charles Gordon's besieged governor of Equatoria, threatened by Mahdist forces. Led by Henry Morton Stanley, the expedition came to be both celebrated, for its ambition in crossing "darkest Africa", and notorious, for the bloodshed and death left in its wake."