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Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer (Paperback)
by Tim Jeal
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Author: Tim Jeal
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub. in: October, 2008
ISBN: 0300142234
Pages: 608
Measurements: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.6 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA01676
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0300142235
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- Awards & Credential -
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (National Book Critics Circle Award National Book Critics Circle 20070930).
Selected as a 2008 AAUP University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries. (Best Book of the Year Selection Association of American University Presses (AAUP) )
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title from 2008. (Outstanding Academic Title Choice )
Selected as one of the best books of 2008 by the Washington Post in the Biography category (Washington Post )
Named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2007 by The New York Times Book Review (Notable Book of the Year New York Times Book Review 20071206) |
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Tim Jeal is the author of two previous biographies, Livingstone and Baden-Powell: Founder of the Boy Scouts, both published by Yale University Press and both chosen as Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times and the Washington Post.
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Henry Morton Stanley, so the tale goes, was a cruel imperialist who connived with King Leopold II of Belgium in horrific crimes against the people of the Congo. He also conducted the most legendary celebrity interview in history, opening with, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
But these perceptions are not quite true, Tim Jeal shows in this grand and colorful biography. 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 success.
Few have started life as disadvantaged as Stanley. Rejected by both parents and consigned to a Welsh workhouse, he emigrated to America as a penniless eighteen-year-old. 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. Few biographies can claim so thoroughly to reappraise a reputation; few portray a more extraordinary historical figure.
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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. |
Jane Ridley (MSL quoted), USA
<2009-02-16 00:00>
Tim Jeal has written a great book-shrewd, perceptive and engaging. |
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? |
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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