Author: Tim Jeal
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571265642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more extraordinary. Few people know of his dazzling trans-Africa journey, a heart-breaking epic of human endurance which solved virtually every one of the continent's remaining geographical puzzles. With new documentary evidence, Jeal explores the very nature of exploration and reappraises a reputation, in a way that is both moving and truly majestic.
Stanley
Author: Tim Jeal
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571265642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more extraordinary. Few people know of his dazzling trans-Africa journey, a heart-breaking epic of human endurance which solved virtually every one of the continent's remaining geographical puzzles. With new documentary evidence, Jeal explores the very nature of exploration and reappraises a reputation, in a way that is both moving and truly majestic.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571265642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more extraordinary. Few people know of his dazzling trans-Africa journey, a heart-breaking epic of human endurance which solved virtually every one of the continent's remaining geographical puzzles. With new documentary evidence, Jeal explores the very nature of exploration and reappraises a reputation, in a way that is both moving and truly majestic.
Henry M. Stanley, the African Explorer
Author: Arthur Hallam Montefiore Brice
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Dr. Livingstone I Presume
Author: David Livingstone
Publisher: Eldorado Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780985467814
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A Story of Dr. Livingstone's Travels in Africa in search of the Source of the Nile. The Zambesi and its Tributaries were explored by this intrepid Adventurer.
Publisher: Eldorado Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780985467814
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A Story of Dr. Livingstone's Travels in Africa in search of the Source of the Nile. The Zambesi and its Tributaries were explored by this intrepid Adventurer.
Through the Dark Continent
Author: Henry Morton Stanley
Publisher:
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Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
How I Found Livingstone
Author: Henry Morton Stanley
Publisher:
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Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Henry M. Stanley
Author: Arthur Hallam Montefiore Brice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Life of Henry M. Stanley
Author: Arthur Hallam Montefiore Brice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Into Africa
Author: Martin Dugard
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0385504527
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
What really happened to Dr. David Livingstone? The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Survivor: The Ultimate Game investigates in this thrilling account. With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is an extraordinarily researched account of a thrilling adventure—defined by alarming foolishness, intense courage, and raw human achievement. In the mid-1860s, exploration had reached a plateau. The seas and continents had been mapped, the globe circumnavigated. Yet one vexing puzzle remained unsolved: what was the source of the mighty Nile river? Aiming to settle the mystery once and for all, Great Britain called upon its legendary explorer, Dr. David Livingstone, who had spent years in Africa as a missionary. In March 1866, Livingstone steered a massive expedition into the heart of Africa. In his path lay nearly impenetrable, uncharted terrain, hostile cannibals, and deadly predators. Within weeks, the explorer had vanished without a trace. Years passed with no word. While debate raged in England over whether Livingstone could be found—or rescued—from a place as daunting as Africa, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., the brash American newspaper tycoon, hatched a plan to capitalize on the world’s fascination with the missing legend. He would send a young journalist, Henry Morton Stanley, into Africa to search for Livingstone. A drifter with great ambition, but little success to show for it, Stanley undertook his assignment with gusto, filing reports that would one day captivate readers and dominate the front page of the New York Herald. Tracing the amazing journeys of Livingstone and Stanley in alternating chapters, author Martin Dugard captures with breathtaking immediacy the perils and challenges these men faced. Woven into the narrative, Dugard tells an equally compelling story of the remarkable transformation that occurred over the course of nine years, as Stanley rose in power and prominence and Livingstone found himself alone and in mortal danger. The first book to draw on modern research and to explore the combination of adventure, politics, and larger-than-life personalities involved, Into Africa is a riveting read.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0385504527
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
What really happened to Dr. David Livingstone? The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Survivor: The Ultimate Game investigates in this thrilling account. With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is an extraordinarily researched account of a thrilling adventure—defined by alarming foolishness, intense courage, and raw human achievement. In the mid-1860s, exploration had reached a plateau. The seas and continents had been mapped, the globe circumnavigated. Yet one vexing puzzle remained unsolved: what was the source of the mighty Nile river? Aiming to settle the mystery once and for all, Great Britain called upon its legendary explorer, Dr. David Livingstone, who had spent years in Africa as a missionary. In March 1866, Livingstone steered a massive expedition into the heart of Africa. In his path lay nearly impenetrable, uncharted terrain, hostile cannibals, and deadly predators. Within weeks, the explorer had vanished without a trace. Years passed with no word. While debate raged in England over whether Livingstone could be found—or rescued—from a place as daunting as Africa, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., the brash American newspaper tycoon, hatched a plan to capitalize on the world’s fascination with the missing legend. He would send a young journalist, Henry Morton Stanley, into Africa to search for Livingstone. A drifter with great ambition, but little success to show for it, Stanley undertook his assignment with gusto, filing reports that would one day captivate readers and dominate the front page of the New York Herald. Tracing the amazing journeys of Livingstone and Stanley in alternating chapters, author Martin Dugard captures with breathtaking immediacy the perils and challenges these men faced. Woven into the narrative, Dugard tells an equally compelling story of the remarkable transformation that occurred over the course of nine years, as Stanley rose in power and prominence and Livingstone found himself alone and in mortal danger. The first book to draw on modern research and to explore the combination of adventure, politics, and larger-than-life personalities involved, Into Africa is a riveting read.
Mr. Stanley, I Presume?
Author: Alan Gallop
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752494945
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Famous for having found the great missionary and explorer Dr David Livingstone on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and immortalised as the utterer of perhaps the four most often quoted words of greeting of all time - 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' - Henry Morton Stanley was himself a man who characterised the great wave of exploring fever that gripped the nineteenth century.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752494945
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Famous for having found the great missionary and explorer Dr David Livingstone on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and immortalised as the utterer of perhaps the four most often quoted words of greeting of all time - 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' - Henry Morton Stanley was himself a man who characterised the great wave of exploring fever that gripped the nineteenth century.
Coomassie and Magdala
Author: Henry Morton Stanley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abyssinian Expedition
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Comprises accounts of Wolseley's occupation of Ashanti capital, Kumasi, Ghana, and terms with King Kofi Karikari, 1873-1874; and of Napier's occupation of Magdala, Ethiopia, to secure release of British captives from Negus Theodore II, 1867-1868.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abyssinian Expedition
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Comprises accounts of Wolseley's occupation of Ashanti capital, Kumasi, Ghana, and terms with King Kofi Karikari, 1873-1874; and of Napier's occupation of Magdala, Ethiopia, to secure release of British captives from Negus Theodore II, 1867-1868.