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Title: | The rescue of Emin Pasha: the story of Henry M. Stanley and the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1887-1889 |
Author: | Jones, Roger |
Year: | 1972 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | London |
Publisher: | History Book Club |
Geographic term: | Sudan |
Subjects: | travel biographies (form) |
About persons: | Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) Emin Pascha (1840-1892) is Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer |
Abstract: | Emin Pasha, born in 1840 in Prussian Silesia as Eduard K.O.T. Schnitzer, was appointed Governor of the Equatorial Province in southern Sudan in 1876. When it became known in Europe in 1886, one year after the death at Khartoum of General Gordon, that Emin Pasha, the last of Gordon's lieutenants, had somehow survived the carnage wrought by the hordes of the Mahdi and was holding out in Equatoria with a small force, the cry went up that another good man must not be left to share Gordon's fate. At the beginning of 1887 Stanley set out in a blaze of publicity on his mission to rescue Pasha. Three years later he brought a reluctant Emin back by the ear to a triumphant welcome at Zanzibar. This book tells the story of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition and shows that the main motive behind the philanthropic exercise was to seize Emin's province - abandoned by Egypt - as the nucleus of a British commercial empire based on the headwaters of the Nile. |