First UK edition. Dark Safari was written by the journalist, historian, and biographer John Bierman (1929-2006), and first published in the United States in 1990, before this British edition followed in 1991. Dark Safari was generally well received, and John le Carré praised it with the words ‘[a]bsorbing, entertaining, enlightening, and admirably presented, Bierman’s Dark Safari evokes place, period and story with great skill, and leads us deftly to the heart of Henry Stanley’s own darkness’ (dustwrapper).

This copy was previously in the noted collection of the explorer and bibliophile Quentin Keynes, who travelled extensively in Africa throughout the second half of the twentieth century, and collected a remarkable library of books and manuscripts relating to the exploration of Africa, particularly during the nineteenth century. Some of these works provided the basis for Keynes’s Roxburghe Club book The Search for the Source of the Nile: Correspondence between Captain Richard Burton, Captain John Speke and Others, from Burton’s Unpublished East African Letter Book; together with Other Related Letters and Papers (London, 1999) and his collection was also a resource that he drew upon for his own travels in Africa. It was also a resource for writer and scholars studying Stanley and the history of African exploration, including Tim Jeal who used material from ‘Quentin Keynes’s unique African collection’ in his later biography Stanley (p. 477).


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