8 rows · · "A magnificent new life [and] a superb adventure story There have been many /5(5). With unprecedented access to previously closed Stanley family archives, Jeal reveals the amazing extent to which Stanley’s public career and intimate life have been misunderstood and undervalued. Jeal recovers the reality of Stanley’s life—a life of almost impossible extremes—in this moving story of tragedy, adventure, disappointment, and bltadwin.ru by: Tim Jeal handles each of the great expeditions, including the formidable trans-African journey of in which Stanley navigated lethal Congo rapids in the tinpot steamer Lady Alice between close encounters with cannibals, with a panache and momentousness worthy of Kipling or Conrad."—Jonathan Keates, The First PostBrand: Yale University Press.
Stanley: The Impossible Life Of Africa's Greatest Explorer|Tim Jeal, Loving Aidan|Ashavan Doyon, Entre Sartre Y Camus / Between Sartre and Camus (Coleccion La Nave y el puerto: ensayo/critica)|Mario Vargas Llosa, OS X Mountain Lion in Easy Steps|Nick Vandome. Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer Paperback - Octo by Tim Jeal (Author) › Visit Amazon's Tim Jeal Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Tim Jeal (Author) out of 5 stars ratings. 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's life does seem impossible and he was Africa's greatest explorer. Most people know him as the journalist who searched for and found Dr. David Livingstone in central Africa. But there was more -- much more -- to the intrepid explorer With source material that was unavailable to earlier biographers, Tim Jeal has written a surprisingly sympathetic, exhaustive biography of the great explorer. Jeal vividly re-creates Stanley’s rise to success, his friendships and romantic relationships. Jeal movingly describes how even at the end of his life, wishing to write his autobiography, Stanley wandered the streets and cemeteries of New Orleans looking for a plausible family history.
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