A noble rescue mission descends into a nightmare of cruelty, starvation and cannibalism.
Henry Morton Stanley - the man who found Dr Livingstone - undertook the greatest African expedition of the nineteenth century. The official aim was to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the murdered General Gordon and governor of southern Sudan, but Stanley's secret agenda was territorial expansion.
Instead of ten months, Stanley's trip took three years and cost the lives of thousands of people, as his column hacked its way through the Congo - the last great-unexplored territory in Africa.
