Czech 132. Hess/Coger 7533. Kainbacher 321. – Rare first edition. – The Irish physician, British Army officer T. H. Parke (1857-1893) „was invited by Edmund Musgrave Barttelot in January 1887 … to accompany him on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. The expedition would be led by Henry Morton Stanley, and would journey through the African wilderness in relief of Emin Pasha, an Egyptian administrator who had been cut off by Mahdist forces following the Siege of Khartoum. Parke was initially rejected by Stanley upon his arrival in Alexandria, but was invited by telegram a day later to join the expedition in Cairo.[6] On 25 February 1887, the expedition set off from Zanzibar in the east for the Congo in the east. The expedition lasted for three years and faced great difficulty, with the expedition of 812 men suffering from poor logistical planning and leadership. The rainforest was much larger than Stanley expected, leading much of the party to face starvation and disease. Parke, for his part, saved the lives of many in the party, including Stanley, who suffered from acute abdominal pain and a bout of sepsis. Stanley described Parke’s care as „ever striving, patient, cheerful and gentle…most assiduous in his application to my needs, and gentle as a woman in his ministrations“. Parke also treated Arthur Jephson for fever, and nursed Robert H. Nelson through starvation. Furthermore, after a conflict with the natives, Parke had to save William Grant Stairs by orally sucking the poison out of an arrow wound“ (Wikipedia). – The cover and endpapers have been professionally restored; the title page, foreword and table of contents show minor damage; otherwise in good condition.

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