Henry Morton Stanley: Explorer of the Very First Rank (1975)

Stanley’s expedition covered 700 miles in 236 days, locating the ailing David Livingstone on November 10, 1871, on Ujiji Island near Lake Tanganyika. They explored together, but Livingstone, who had traveled extensively since 1840, was in declining health and died in 1873. Stanley served as a pallbearer at his Westminster Abbey funeral. In 1874, Stanley began his second expedition, researching the Congo and Nile rivers. He circumnavigated Victoria Nyanza and reached the Atlantic Ocean on August 12, 1877, but tragically lost three companions and the expedition’s dogs during the journey.

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