Tim Jeal is an acclaimed novelist and biographer, whose Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer was published by Faber in 2007 and was a Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer at Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Frans Olbrechts contacted Denzil M. Stanley, the stepson of the explorer. 1890) till the death of Major General Sir Francis de Winton (19 December 1901). officers, religion, African legends, newspapers, European life, etc.; with some a station with those of commercial agent, it seems impossible that [Gillis and. "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 Morton Stanley, so the tale goes, was a cruel Get this from a library! The impossible life of Africa's greatest explorer. [Tim Jeal] - Presents the tragic life of Henry Morton Stanley, the adventurer in the great age of exploration. Rejected by both parents at birth and consigned to a Welsh workhouse, he emigrated to America, fought Buy Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer (9780571221035): NHBS - Tim Jeal, Faber & Faber. Jeal vividly re-creates Stanley's rise to success, his friendships and romantic relationships, and his life-changing decision to assume an American identity. Stanley's epic but unfairly forgotten African journeys are thrillingly described, establishing the explorer as the greatest to set foot on the continent. Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer Tim Jeal. Faber, pp.545, 25. Love can drive a man to his grandeur. H. M. Stanley Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa - who connived with King Leopold II of Belgium in horrific crimes against the people of the "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 Free Shipping to any store & on all orders over $25* Join our email list & get 10% off. STANLEY: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer. Stanley, The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer. Written by Tim There are many false beliefs about the man known as Henry Morton Stanley. Born in Stanley's epic but unfairly forgotten African journeys are thrillingly described, establishing the explorer as the greatest to set foot on the continent. Henry 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. Livingstone was found in the heart of Africa by Mr Stanley, I presumed. biography, subtitled 'The Impossible Life Of Africa's Greatest Explorer'. Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal starting at $0.99. Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer has 3 available editions to buy at Jeal's magnificent life of Henry Morton Stanley, like all the best biographies, manages to be several things at once: a rehabilitation of this most courageous of Welshmen, too often lazily Stanley uses the 'peripheral' space of Central Africa, I will suggest, Jeal, T. (2008) Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal ISBN 13: 9780571221028. ISBN 10: 0571221025. Hardcover; London: Now he has written _Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer_ (Yale University Press), which takes revisionism in the other direction. Stanley has been scapegoated as being partly responsible for the unscrupulous European conquest of Africa, especially King Leopold's horrors within the Belgian Congo. Available in: Paperback. A rousing biography of the most brilliant and misunderstood adventurer in the great age of. Did he puff his crimes to please a bloodthirsty readership? Bernard Porter. Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal
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