First edition. Accounts of two British campaigns in Africa by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), the British explorer and special correspondent for the New York Herald. Best known for his later expedition to locate Dr. David Livingstone, Stanley began his career covering the African military campaigns of prominent British generals, including Sir Garnet Wolseley and Lord Napier. Wolseley’s Coomassie campaign during the Third Anglo-Ashanti War (1873-1874) involved fierce fighting in the dense jungles of the Gold Coast, West Africa (present-day Ghana). Stanley also reported on Lord Napier’s Abyssinian expedition, which saw thousands of troops traverse uncharted terrain to reach the mountain fortress of Magdala.
Cat. no. 57903.