On November 10, 1871, Henry Stanley reported meeting David Livingstone in the heart of Africa. Livingstone, a Scottish missionary and explorer, had disappeared years before while searching for the ...

Mixing political intrigue, adventure and his extensive research in Africa, author Martin Dugard tells the story behind the most famous encounter in exploration history --- the climactic meeting of Dr.

Stanley swore he uttered the words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume,” but the page pertaining to that moment was torn out of his journal. It is possible that it went missing in an act of sabotage by a ...

On the afternoon of Nov. 10, 1871, Stanley at last met Livingstone. Out of that meeting came a famous anecdote of civility, manners and decorous restraint. More to the point, out of that meeting ...

Dr. David Livingstone is the renowned British explorer, whom American journalist Henry Morton Stanley greeted with the now famous words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume.” When New York Herald reporter ...

The oft-quoted if little-understood phrase “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” would seem like a thin premise for an eight-episode series. Yet producer Mark Burnett dives in with his customary gusto, ...

When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing ...

As America rebuilt following the Civil War, a rift developed with her old nemesis, Great Britain. Superpower Britain and the ascendant United States were at loggerheads over such issues as the sinking ...