1889 A Visit to Stanley's Rear-Guard at Major Barttelot's Camp on the Aruhwimi

Description

First Edition, Folding Maps, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon

An uncommon first edition.

Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, a folding map to the rear, and seventeen plates. Collated, complete.

J. R. Werner offers a contemporary account of part of Henry Morton Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition in Central Africa.

He focuses on the rear-guard left under Major Edmund Barttelot on the Aruwimi River, describing the harsh conditions, disorganisation, and tragic events that befell the camp during Stanley's absence.

With a prize bookplate to the front pastedown awarding the work to Kenneth McKenzie.

This offers insight into one of the most controversial episodes of nineteenth-century African exploration.