David Livingstone (1813-73) was a nineteenth-century British explorer and missionary. His 1866 search for the source of the Nile forms the core of this two-volume diary, published posthumously in 1874. Volume 1 describes Livingstone's journey from Zanzibar to Ujiji, and his famous meeting with the journalist Henry Morton Stanley.

Published in 1874, this account of Livingstone's last expedition includes his famous 1871 meeting with the journalist Henry Morton Stanley.