Finding Dr. Livingstone

A History in Documents from the Henry Morton Stanley Archives

Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi, James L. Newman (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

560 Seiten

2022
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-2513-8 (ISBN)

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Never-before-published documents from Henry Stanley’s historic 1871 expedition to what is now Tanzania in search of David Livingstone recasts Stanley’s sensationalized narrative with new details about the people involved, their systems of knowledge, commerce, and labor, the natural environment, and the spread of modern colonial powers in Africa.

This eye-opening perspective on Stanley’s expedition reveals new details about the Victorian explorer and his African crew on the brink of the colonial Scramble for Africa.

In 1871, Welsh American journalist Henry M. Stanley traveled to Zanzibar in search of the “missing” Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingstone. A year later, Stanley emerged to announce that he had “found” and met with Livingstone on Lake Tanganyika. His alleged utterance there, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume,” was one of the most famous phrases of the nineteenth century, and Stanley’s book, How I Found Livingstone, became an international bestseller.

In this fascinating volume Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi and James L. Newman transcribe and annotate the entirety of Stanley’s documentation, making available for the first time in print a broader narrative of Stanley’s journey that includes never-before-seen primary source documents—worker contracts, vernacular plant names, maps, ruminations on life, lines of poetry, bills of lading—all scribbled in his field notebooks.

Finding Dr. Livingstone is a crucial resource for those interested in exploration and colonization in the Victorian era, the scientific knowledge of the time, and the peoples and conditions of Tanzania prior to its colonization by Germany.

Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi is curator of the Henry M. Stanley Archives and Collections at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium). With James L. Newman, she edited Adventures of an American Traveler in Turkey by H.M. Stanley. Her past exhibitions include Dr Livingstone, I Presume (2013). She is in charge of archives and history training programs for graduate students, archivists, and librarians from Central Africa. James L. Newman is emeritus professor of geography at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School. His previous works include The Peopling of Africa: A Geographic Interpretation, Imperial Footprints: Henry M. Stanley’s African Journey, Paths without Glory: Richard Francis Burton in Africa, and Encountering Gorillas: A Chronicle of Discovery, Exploitation, Understanding, and Survival. He lives in Syracuse, New York.

List of Illustrations

Foreword (G. Gryseels, RMCA)

Foreword (D. Allard, KBF)

Abbreviations and Editorial Notations

Introduction

Documents

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, 8 May 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 to 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 15–29, 1872)

Appendix

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)

Letters from John Kirk, British Consul in Zanzibar, to Stanley (S.A. 2656, 2660)

Letters from Dr. Livingstone to Stanley (S.A. 477, 478, 479)

Letters from W. Oswell Livingstone to Stanley (S.A. 488)

Letters from the New York Herald Staff in London to Stanley

Finley Anderson (S.A. 2588, 2589)

Douglas A. Levien (S.A. 2626)

Letters from Stanley to J. Gordon Bennett (S.A. 6926, 6925)

List of Letters Carried by Stanley from Dr. Livingstone (S.A. 4754)

Contracts of African Soldiers with Uredi Manwa Sera as Captain to Serve

Dr. Livingstone (S.A. 4749) and Contract of Mohammed bin Galfin (S.A. 4750)

Glossary of Kiswahili Words

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.12.2022
Verlagsort	Athens
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8214-2513-7 / 0821425137
ISBN-13	978-0-8214-2513-8 / 9780821425138
Zustand	Neuware