ISBN: 9780241101254 - In Limbo: The Story of Stanley's Rear Column (10 results)

Hardback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Condition: Good. DJ will be clean and have at most light wear. Book will have been read but remains in excellent condition. Clean and tight binding. Cover may show slight wear. Contents will be clean and free from markings.

1st edition. Pages & dust jacket clean; binding tight Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good.

Condition: Poor. Used, dust jacket outer edges have scuffs, cover has light scratches and marks, some outer pages have marks from shelf wear, book content is in very good condition.

Cloth. Condition: Vg. Dust Jacket Condition: Vg. First Edition. 269pp. Plates. Size: 8vo.

Hard Cover. Condition: F-. First Edition. F-/F. 8vo. original green boards gilt (neat prev. owner's name to FFE) in dustwrapper; pp. xx, 270 (last blank), with 12 plates & a map. A fine copy.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. IN LIMBO The Story of Stanley's Rear Column. Tony Gould. Hamish Hamilton, London 1978 First Edition ISBN 0241101255 270pp Illustrated Hardback. In June 1887 Henry Stanley marched the advance column of his Emin Pasha Relief Expedition out of Yambuya Camp in the Congo Free State and put Major Barttelot in charge of the rear column. Stanley was leaving five Englishmen at Yambuya with 250 porters and the bulk of the Expedition's supplies, to be safeguarded for his return in four months' time. When Stanley returned fourteen months later, he found only one of his officers still there. Two were dead, a third invalided home, and there were over a hundred graves at Yambuya. It was an unmitigated disaster and whilst Stanley was in no doubt that the responsibility lay with the officers of the rear column, it wasn't long before England was demanding to know why Stanley had virtually abandoned the rear column, had not kept greater contact, and why he had chosen as unsuitable an officer as Major Barttelot. His reputation at stake, Stanley retaliated with nothing short of a smear campaign against his own officers. The Victorian public, avid for more salacious details, quickly lost sight of the original argument and transformed it into a generalised discussion of the pernicious efforts of contact between 'superior' and 'inferior' races. This is the first account of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition to take the episode of the rear column as the main narrative and in doing so an entirely new perspective unfolds. This copy is in FINE condition in a FINE unclipped dustwrapper. Ref L5.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Green cloth. A most interesting study of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1887. Illustrated in b/w. Bumping to spine. Some page browning and light foxing. Wrapper is faded to spine, with edge-creasing. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback in jacket 1979. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Jacket is complete. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 45/26. In Limbo. The Story of Stanley's Rear Column by Tony Gould. Published in 1979 by Hamish Hamilton, London.…