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STANLEY (Henry Morton). COMMENT j'ai Retrouvé Livingstone. Paris. 1880. - STANLEY (Henry Morton) COMMENT j'ai Retrouvé Livingstone . Voyage abrégé d'après la traduction de Mme H. Loreau par J. Belin-de-Launay; et contenant 16 vignettes sur bois et 1 carte. Troisième édition. Paris: Librairie Hachette & Cie, 1880. XXXVI, 252 pp.: il.; 185 mm. Third edition of this abridged French version, translated by Henriette Loreau and adapted by Jules Belin-de-Launay (Paris, 1814-1883), from the original English How I Found Livingstone (London, 1872). The first edition of this abridged version is from 1876. Henry Morton Stanley (Denbigh, Wales, 1841 – London, 1904), a journalist for the New York Herald , left Zanzibar in 1871 on a mission for his newspaper to locate David Livingstone (Blantyre, Scotland, 1813 – Chitambo, 1873), a Scottish missionary and explorer who had disappeared in the interior of Africa during his expeditions in search of the Nile's source. The expedition resulted in the most celebrated encounter in the history of African exploration, immortalized by the phrase Stanley addressed to the explorer when he met him in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika: ”Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”. The book describes the journey from Zanzibar to Tanganyika, with all its vicissitudes, and the period spent in Livingstone's company before their return. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate