Wauters explains how the Egyptian conquest of the Sudan and the Mahdist revolt left Emin Pasha, governor of the Equatorial Provinces, cut off at the heart of Africa with the explorers Junker and Casati. He then follows the organisation and progress of Stanley’s relief expedition up the Congo and through the forest.
A contemporary account of one of the most famous and controversial African expeditions of the Victorian age. Download the free EPUB.