Henry Morton Stanley (‘one of the most brutal of African travellers [and] condemned by historians for his part in the creation of King Leopold II’s Congo Free State’) is not surprisingly being rehabilitated as a liberal humanitarian. At the heart of this revisionism is Tim Jeal’s Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer doing [...]
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Springtime for Henry Morton Stanley
Posted in Books, Henry Stanley, London Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, Paul Thoreux on October 9, 2007 | 6 Comments »
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