Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer.(Book review)

Stanley The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer Tim Jeal Faber 570pp 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN 978 0 571 22102 8

AFTER THE GLUT OF STANLEY BIOGRAPHIES in the early 1990s, is there any interested party unaware of the saga of the 'man who found Livingstone in Central Africa': the early years as a Welsh workhouse brat; the escape from poverty through war reporting; the Livingstone expedition of 1871-72; the charting of the Congo five years later; the founding of the Congo Free State for Leopold of Belgium in the 1880s; and the notorious Emin Pasha Relief expedition which ...

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