Bibliograph

Stanley, the impossible life of Africa's greatest explorer, Tim Jeal

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Stanley, the impossible life of Africa's greatest explorer, Tim Jeal

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 478-487) and index

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individual biography

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Stanley

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

154689070

Responsibility statement

Tim Jeal

Sub title

the impossible life of Africa's greatest explorer

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.'

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