Stanley: An Adventurer Explored - Richard Hall

Stanley: An Adventurer Explored – Richard Hall (1st American Edition 1975 by Houghton Mifflin Company)
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Genre: Biography
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Summary
The story of Stanley's travels is one of the most exciting in the history of exploration, and his meeting with Dr. Livingstone in the heart of Africa is famous. His adventures before he sets out to find Livingstone are sensational enough: a voyage to America before the mast; a rolling stone through the southern states until the Civil War found him employment as a Confederate soldier; capture and subsequent enlistment in the Federal Navy (from which he again deserted); travel in the Near East; and, finally, his first job as a reporter for the Missouri Democrat which was to open the way to assignments as a war and foreign correspondent and the greatest scoop of all time.

But who was Stanley? What was his real name? Why did he claim at different times American and British birth? Why was He so desperately untruthful about these and other personal details? And why did this homely, insecure man succeed again and again where others failed?

Here is a wholly new portrait of one of the most colorful and enigmatic figures of the Victorian age, drawn by Richard Hall from family archives and important new material—including diaries of two of Stanley's companions on the great journey of 1874-1877, letters about hitherto unknown love affairs, and evidence from the early years.

Richard Hall has lived and worked in Africa for many years. He has traveled over much the same parts of the continent as Stanley, sometimes, as in the Congo revolt, in conditions hardly less dangerous to a European. But he has not only extended and enriched our knowledge of the African journeys. Here at last in a brilliant piece of research and a no less brilliant piece of storytelling the true lineaments of the man are uncovered from the repeated overpaintings and varnishings that Stanley applied to his own self-portrait.