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100 1 $aJeal, Tim.
245 10 $aStanley :$bthe impossible life of Africa's greatest explorer /$cTim Jeal.
260 $aLondon :$bFaber,$c2008.
300 $axiii, 570 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color), maps, portraits (some color) ;$c20 cm
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500 $aOriginally published: 2007.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 482-487) and index.
520 8 $aHenry 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's life has been.
505 0 $aDreams 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.'
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