"A magnificent new life . . . [and] a superb adventure story. . . . There have been many biographies of Stanley, but Jeal's is the most felicitous, the best informed, the most complete and readable and exhaustive, profiting from his access to an immense new trove of Stanley material." -- Paul Theroux, front page, "New York Times Book Review" Henry ...
A noble rescue mission descends into a nightmare of cruelty, starvation, and cannibalism, bringing to a close the European exploration of Africa. "Liebowitz and Pearson have written an illuminating saga of the dark days of colonialism."-"National Geographic Adventure"
Henry Morton Stanley undertook the greatest African expedition of the 19th century to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan. Instead of ten months, the trip took three years and cost the lives of thousands of people, as Stanley's column hacked its way across the last great, unexplored ...
A historical novel based on the life of a Cretan revolutionary who, kidnapped and captured in his youth, must in later life lead an attack on his native land.
Edition: Stated First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Inc.
Date Published: 1947
Description: Very Good in Fair jacket. "The little-known story of Stanley and Africa's white Pasha", Henry Stanley's rescue of Emin Pasha from Equatorial Africa. Dust jacket has edgewear, small tears, rub marks and fading. read more
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How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa
