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Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer (平装)
by Tim Jeal
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| MSL Pointer Review:
It is the most felicitous, the best informed, the most complete and readable and exhaustive biographies of Stanley. |
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Paul Theroux (MSL quoted), USA
<2009-02-16 00:00>
A magnificent new life... [Jeal] demonstrates in a way that makes [this] a superb adventure story as well as a feat of advocacy [that] Stanley was probably the greatest explorer ever to set foot in Africa... 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. |
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Jane Ridley (MSL quoted), USA
<2009-02-16 00:00>
Tim Jeal has written a great book-shrewd, perceptive and engaging. |
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John Carey (MSL quoted), USA
<2009-02-16 00:00>
Tim Jeal's book is not just an absorbing, sometimes horrifying biography but a feat of advocacy-an ardent, intricate defence of a man history has damned...His subject could not be more topical...For the question at the core of the book is do we have the right to force our idea of civilization on people's whose culture is abhorrent to us? |
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Justin Marozzi (MSL quoted), USA
<2009-02-16 00:00>
This powerful and meticulously researched biography...Assisted by a treasure trove of previously inaccessible letters and diaries, Tim Jeal presents the most cogent argument for years in favour of a radical reassessment of the Welsh-born American bastard...This magnificent book is a stirring riposte to his many critics and a blow struck for a more distinguished posterity. |
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Tom Stacey (MSL quoted), USA
<2009-02-16 00:00>
"[A] gripping and scrupulously researched biography...unpicks Stanley's public lies to reveal the... injustice of the damage they have done his reputation...As Jeal authoritatively demonstrates, Stanley remained stalwartly humanitarian, ever true to his men. |
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Peter Lewis (MSL quoted), USA
<2009-02-16 00:00>
Everything I thought I knew about Henry Morton Stanley was wrong. It is put right in this major biography...Stanley's life was ''impossible'' in the sense that you cannot believe how much he crammed into it... Stanley's three great expeditions to the interior are at the heart of the book. There were caravans numbering 200 bearers, armed guards, women and children, half of whom might never reach their destination... His reputation still lies in the shadow of Livingstone's. But if anything will rescue it, this newly researched, rich, perceptive life may do the trick. |
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Jonathan Keates (MSL quoted), USA
<2009-02-16 00:00>
Masterly...Tim Jeal handles each of the great expeditions, including the formidable trans-African journey of 1874-7 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. |
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Tom Adair (MSL quoted), USA
<2009-02-16 00:00>
In this stunningly comprehensive biography Stanley himself is run to earth as a figure far more complex, contradictory and chameleon-like than was previously suspected...A rollicking read as well as a moving, incisive study of one man's restless, evolving character and ambitions... The relationship with Livingstone is brilliantly brought to life, while the later Congo debacle is mapped as never before...[Stanley's] life seems tailor made for the full-blown Hollywood treatment. |
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Julie Davidson(MSL quoted), USA
<2009-02-16 00:00>
Tim Jeal is a biographer as fearless in his genre as Stanley in the jungle...His exhilerating book overturns much of the negative orthodoxy about the man he unhesitatingly calls Africa's greatest explorer...This is a page-turner. Jeal is a compelling storyteller, and his prose sweeps the reader along on a river of revelations. |
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Kevin Rushby (MSL quoted), USA
<2009-02-16 00:00>
Jeal's book is a stunning and provocative work, an awesome piece of scholarship executed with page-turning brio... A remarkable reassessment that will send shivers through historians and writers on Africa. |
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