Stanley The Impossible Life of Africas Greatest Explorer Jeal vividly recreates Stanley’s rise to success his friendships and romantic relationships and his lifechanging decision to assume an American identity Stanley’s epic but unfairly forgotten African journeys are thrillingly described establishing the explorer as the greatest to set foot on the continent Stanley The Impossible Life of Africas Greatest Explorer Stanleys life does seem impossible and he was Africas greatest explorer Most people know him as the journalist who searched for and found Dr David Livingstone in central Africa But there was more much more to the intrepid With source material that was unavailable to earlier biographers Tim Jeal has written a surprisingly sympathetic exhaustive biography of the great explorer Stanley The Impossible Life of Africas Greatest Explorer Jeal vividly recreates Stanley’s rise to success his friendships and romantic relationships and his lifechanging decision to assume an American identity Stanley’s epic but unfairly Stanley The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer He was not the violent hanger and flogger he was reputed to be nor was he a willing cat’spaw for King Leopold’s infernalities But as this book demonstrates in a way that makes it a Stanley The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer Stanley The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer There are many false beliefs about the man known as Henry Morton Stanley Born in 1840 in Denbigh his real name was John Rowlands the illegitimate first child of Elizabeth Parry who abandoned him Until he was five years old John was cared for by his maternal grandfather Moses Parry Stanley The Impossible Life of Africas Greatest Explorer Jeal vividly recreates Stanleys rise to success his friendships and romantic relationships and his lifechanging decision to assume an American identity Stanleys epic but unfairly forgotten African journeys are thrillingly described establishing the explorer as the greatest to set foot on the continent Review Stanley The Impossible Life of Africas Greatest Stanley The Impossible Life of Africas Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal 496pp Faber £25 A couple of years ago I stood in front of Henry Morton Stanleys contribution to the ancient palace of Persepolis in Iran and marvelled Stanley The Impossible Life of Africas Greatest Explorer Now he has written Stanley The Impossible Life of Africas Greatest Explorer Yale University Press which takes revisionism in the other direction Stanley has been scapegoated as being partly responsible for the unscrupulous European conquest of Africa especially King Leopolds horrors within the Belgian Congo Stanley The Impossible Life of Africas Greatest Jeal vividly recreates Stanleys rise to success his friendships and romantic relationships and his lifechanging decision to assume an American identity Stanleys epic but unfairly forgotten African journeys are thrillingly described establishing the explorer as the greatest to set foot on the continent
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ISBN: 0300142234
Release Date: 2008-10-28
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