Author: Alba Yurman
Captain Stairs was appointed to the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition led by Henry Morton Stanley, at the time the most celebrated living explorer of Africa ... Stairs was appointed second-in-command after Captain Barttelot was shot on 19 July 1888.
This is the story of the Stairs Expedition, related by the group’s medical officer, Joseph Moloney.
First published in 1893, Moloney’s fascinating narrative will transport you to a world of cannibals, missionaries, and slave traders; of a provocative military invasion and its bloody climax; and of the mercenaries’ nightmarish return march — wracked by starvation and fever — back to the coast of East Africa, according to a review on goodreads.com.
