Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone (Abridged)

With the utterance of a single line-“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”-a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is an extraordinarily researched account of a thrilling adventure-defined by alarming foolishness, intense courage, and raw human achievement.

In the mid-1860s, exploration had r...