The Last Expedition: Stanley's fatal journey through the Congo - Hardcover

A noble rescue mission descends into a nightmare of cruelty, starvation and cannibalism - bringing to a close the European exploration of Africa. Henry Morton Stanley - the man who found Dr Livingstone - undertook the greatest African expedition of the nineteenth century. The ostensible aim was to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the murdered General Gordon and governor of southern Sudan. Instead of ten months, Stanley's trip took three years and cost the lives of thousands of people, as his column hacked its way through the Congo - the last great unexplored territory in Africa. Stanley's secret agenda was territorial expansion; and what is revealed so vividly in the accounts of those who accompanied him is the dark underside of both the man and the colonial impulse.

Daniel Liebowitz, M.D. is a clinical professor of Medicine Emeritus, Sanford University, and has travelled extensively in Africa. . He lives in Woodside, California. Charlie Pearson has been a professional writer for twenty five years, working largely in documentary film. His documentary work has been shown on the Discovery and National Geographic Channels, and he was nominated for an Academy Award for Goodnight Miss Ann which he wrote and associate produced. He lives in Mill Valley, California.