Subtitle: or the sources of the Nile around the Great Lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. The isbn is for Vol. 1 Vol 2 is 0486256685. Both volumes are bumped at the edges and the head of the spine, worse in Volume 2. Volume One suffers from a crease at the tail's outer edge, Volume Two at its head. Internally the book is clean, unmarked and solid. Vol.1 xxv, 400 pages, illustrated and including a fold out map; Vol. 2 viii, 419 pages, indexed and illustrated and including a catalogue of Dover Books. "Sir Henry Morton Stanley GCB (born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 - 10 May 1904) was a Welsh journalist and explorer who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Upon finding Livingstone, Stanley reportedly asked, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Stanley is also known for his search for the source of the Nile, his pioneering work that enabled the plundering of the Congo Basin region by King Leopold II of Belgium, and his command of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. " (Wikipedia)