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Author : J. T. Headley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stanley's Wonderful Adventures in Africa written by J. T. Headley and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Jeal
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571265642
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Stanley written by Tim Jeal and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more extraordinary. Few people know of his dazzling trans-Africa journey, a heart-breaking epic of human endurance which solved virtually every one of the continent's remaining geographical puzzles. With new documentary evidence, Jeal explores the very nature of exploration and reappraises a reputation, in a way that is both moving and truly majestic.
Author : Martin Dugard
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0385504527
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Into Africa written by Martin Dugard and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003-05-06 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really happened to Dr. David Livingstone? The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Survivor: The Ultimate Game investigates in this thrilling account. With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is an extraordinarily researched account of a thrilling adventure—defined by alarming foolishness, intense courage, and raw human achievement. In the mid-1860s, exploration had reached a plateau. The seas and continents had been mapped, the globe circumnavigated. Yet one vexing puzzle remained unsolved: what was the source of the mighty Nile river? Aiming to settle the mystery once and for all, Great Britain called upon its legendary explorer, Dr. David Livingstone, who had spent years in Africa as a missionary. In March 1866, Livingstone steered a massive expedition into the heart of Africa. In his path lay nearly impenetrable, uncharted terrain, hostile cannibals, and deadly predators. Within weeks, the explorer had vanished without a trace. Years passed with no word. While debate raged in England over whether Livingstone could be found—or rescued—from a place as daunting as Africa, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., the brash American newspaper tycoon, hatched a plan to capitalize on the world’s fascination with the missing legend. He would send a young journalist, Henry Morton Stanley, into Africa to search for Livingstone. A drifter with great ambition, but little success to show for it, Stanley undertook his assignment with gusto, filing reports that would one day captivate readers and dominate the front page of the New York Herald. Tracing the amazing journeys of Livingstone and Stanley in alternating chapters, author Martin Dugard captures with breathtaking immediacy the perils and challenges these men faced. Woven into the narrative, Dugard tells an equally compelling story of the remarkable transformation that occurred over the course of nine years, as Stanley rose in power and prominence and Livingstone found himself alone and in mortal danger. The first book to draw on modern research and to explore the combination of adventure, politics, and larger-than-life personalities involved, Into Africa is a riveting read.
Author : Tim Butcher
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099494280
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (994 download)
Download or read book Blood River written by Tim Butcher and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Blood River' is a readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and what is perhaps one of the most daring and adventurous journeys a journalist has made.
Author : J. T. Headley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa written by J. T. Headley and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Morton Stanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Through the Dark Continent written by Henry Morton Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Frederick Robinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199978484
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Lost White Tribe written by Michael Frederick Robinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael F. Robinson traces the rise and fall of the Hamitic Hypothesis, the theory that whites had lived in Africa since antiquity, which held sway in Europe and in Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Author : John Edgar Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Large and Valuable Library of Mr. John E. Burton of Lake Geneva, Wis written by John Edgar Burton and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Tomkins
Publisher : Lion Books
ISBN 13 : 0745957196
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (459 download)
Download or read book David Livingstone written by Stephen Tomkins and published by Lion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Livingstone has gone down in history as a fearless explorer and missionary, hacking his way through the forests of Africa to bring light to the people - and also to free them from slavery. But who was he, and what was he actually like? "He was an extraordinary character- according to biographer Stephen Tomkins -spectacularly bad at personal relationships, at least with white people, possessed of infinite self-belief, courage, and restlessness. He was an almost total failure as a missionary, and so became an explorer and campaigner against the slave trade, hoping to save African lives and souls that way instead. He helped, however unwittingly, to set the tone and the extent of British involvement in Africa. He was a flawed but indomitable idealist." Fascinating new evidence about Livingstone's life and his struggles have come to light in the letters and journals he left behind, now accessible to us for the first time through spectral imaging. These form a significant addition to the source material for this excellent biography, which provides an honest and balanced account of the real man behind the Victorian icon.
Author : Thomas Wallace Knox
Publisher : Alpha Edition
ISBN 13 : 9789355896407
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (964 download)
Download or read book The Boy Travellers on the Congo; Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey with Henry M. Stanley "Through the Dark Continent" written by Thomas Wallace Knox and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
Author : James Penny Boyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stanley in Africa written by James Penny Boyd and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Livingstone
Publisher : Eldorado Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780985467814
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)
Download or read book Dr. Livingstone I Presume written by David Livingstone and published by Eldorado Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Story of Dr. Livingstone's Travels in Africa in search of the Source of the Nile. The Zambesi and its Tributaries were explored by this intrepid Adventurer.
Author : Fran Sandham
Publisher : Prelude Books
ISBN 13 : 0715645536
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Traversa written by Fran Sandham and published by Prelude Books. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traversa" is a fascinating account of the hardships and hilarity Fran Sandham experienced during his epic solo journey on foot across Africa, from the Skeleton Coast to the Indian Ocean through Namibia, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania. Inspired by the legendary crossings of the great explorers, Sandham left the daily grind of London to undertake an extraordinary adventure. "Traversa" describes his brushes with danger in the form of lions and snakes, land mines and bandits, his 2-month battle with a syphilitic donkey, malaria and the everyday troubles that arise when walking across Africa. Underpinned with stories of the great explorers themselves - Livingstone, Stanley and Galton among others - "Traversa" is the written proof of Sandham's grit, determination and sheer obsession with the continent of Africa.
Author : Tim Butcher
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099532069
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Chasing the Devil written by Tim Butcher and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The audacious, gripping travelogue of a writer chasing the ghost of Graham Greene into the heart of Africa.
Author : Lenny A. Ureña Valerio
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446630
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities written by Lenny A. Ureña Valerio and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities, Lenny Ureña Valerio offers a transnational approach to Polish-German relations and nineteenth-century colonial subjectivities. She investigates key cultural dynamics in the history of medicine, colonialism, and migration that bring Germany and Prussian Poland closer to the colonial and postcolonial worlds in Africa and Latin America. She also analyzes how Poles in the German Empire positioned themselves in relation to Germans and native populations in overseas colonies. She thus recasts Polish perspectives and experiences, allowing new insights into identity formation and nationalist movements within the German Empire. Crucially, Ureña Valerio also studies the medical projects and scientific ideas that traveled from colonies to the German metropole, and vice versa, which were influential not only in the racialization of Slavic populations, but also in bringing scientific conceptions of race to the everydayness of the German Empire. As a whole, Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities illuminates nested imperial and colonial relations using sources that range from medical texts and state documents to travel literature and fiction. By studying these scientific and political debates, Ureña Valerio uncovers novel ways to connect medicine, migration, and colonialism and provides an invigorating model for the analysis of Polish history from a global perspective.
Author : Martin Dugard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743436393
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Farther Than Any Man written by Martin Dugard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-09-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Cook never laid eyes on the sea until he was in his teens. He then began an extraordinary rise from farmboy outsider to the hallowed rank of captain of the Royal Navy, leading three historic journeys that would forever link his name with fearless exploration (and inspire pop-culture heroes like Captain Hook and Captain James T. Kirk). In Farther Than Any Man, noted modern-day adventurer Martin Dugard strips away the myth of Cook and instead portrays a complex, conflicted man of tremendous ambition (at times to a fault), intellect (though Cook was routinely underestimated) and sheer hardheadedness. When Great Britain announced a major circumnavigation in 1768 -- a mission cloaked in science, but aimed at the pursuit of world power -- it came as a political surprise that James Cook was given command. Cook's surveying skills had contributed to the British victory over France in the Seven Years' War in 1763, but no commoner had ever commanded a Royal Navy vessel. Endeavor's stunning three-year journey changed the face of modern exploration, charting the vast Pacific waters, the eastern coasts of New Zealand and Australia, and making landfall in Tahiti, Tierra del Fuego, and Rio de Janeiro. After returning home a hero, Cook yearned to get back to sea. He soon took control of the Resolution and returned to his beloved Pacific, in search of the elusive Southern Continent. It was on this trip that Cook's taste for power became an obsession, and his legendary kindness to island natives became an expectation of worship -- traits that would lead him first to greatness, then to catastrophe. Full of action, lush description, and fascinating historical characters like King George III and Master William Bligh, Dugard's gripping account of the life and gruesome demise of Capt. James Cook is a thrilling story of a discoverer hell-bent on traveling farther than any man.
Author : Stefan Bechtel
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080700636X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Mr. Hornaday's War written by Stefan Bechtel and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was complex, quirky, pugnacious, and difficult. He seemed to create enemies wherever he went, even among his friends. A fireplug of a man who stood only five feet eight inches in his stocking feet, he had an outsized ambition to make his mark on the world. And he did. William Temple Hornaday (1854-1937) was probably the most famous conservationist of the nineteenth century, second only to his great friend and ally Theodore Roosevelt. Hornaday's great passion was protecting wild things and wild places, and he spent most of his adult life in a state of war on their behalf, as a taxidermist and museum collector; as the founder and first director of the National Zoo in Washington, DC; as director of the Bronx Zoo for thirty years; and as the author of nearly two dozen books on conservation and wildlife. But in Mr. Hornaday's War, the long-overdue biography of Hornaday by journalist Stefan Bechtel, the grinding contradictions of Hornaday's life also become clear. Though he is credited with saving the American bison from extinction, he began his career as a rifleman and trophy hunter who led "the last buffalo hunt" into the Montana Territory. And what happened in 1906 at the Bronx Zoo, when Hornaday displayed an African man in a cage, shows a side of him that is as baffling as it is repellent. This gripping new book takes an honest look at a fascinating and enigmatic man.
