Stanley the impossible life of Africa's greatest explorer
Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist, who connived with King Leopold II of Belgium in horrific crimes against the people of the Congo - or so we think. Tim Jeal shows that this perception is not true. Now, abundant new documentary evidence allows Jeal to show just how misunderstood Stanley&#...
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Faber
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Dreams of love and freedom
- In the name of the father
- A terrible freedom
- An accident-prone apprenticeship
- War correspondent
- How are we to be married?
- The long-imagined quest
- 'I cannot die!'
- Canonizing Dr Livingstone
- 'Fame is useless to me'
- A destiny resumed
- Love and the longest journey
- The island of death
- 'The great struggle with this mystery'
- 'I hate evil and love good'
- A colony for a king
- A banquet in Paris
- After the slave raids
- Who stole the Congo?
- A pawn in great power politics
- 'A king of innocence'
- Why rescue Emin Pasha?
- A fateful decision
- The enigma of Emin Pasha
- 'Evil hangs over this forest...'
- Keeping Emin Pasha's secret
- The shape of things to come...
- Dorothy's other love
- Was the Emin Pasha expedition piratical?
- Africa or a child
- An end to 'noble objects'
- Stanley, Leopold and the atrocities
- 'Before it is too late.'