Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

608 Pages·2008·0.58 MB·English

by  Tim Jeal

STANLEY
by the same author
Non-fiction
LIVINGSTONE
BADEN-POWELL
SWIMMING WITH MY FATHER
Fiction
SOMEWHERE BEYOND REPROACH
CUSHING'S CRUSADE
THE MISSIONARY'S WIFE
DEEP WATER
STANLEY
The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
TIM JEAL
To my sister, Thomasina
... away from people who had already made up their minds about me, I could be
different. I could introduce myself as ... a boy of dignity and consequence, and
without any reason to doubt me people would believe I was that boy. I
recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others ...
Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life

CONTENTS
Illustrations ix
Plates xi
Maps xiv
Introduction i
i Dreams of Love and Freedom 17
z In the Name of the Father 31
3 A Terrible Freedom 42
4 An Accident-prone Apprenticeship 57
5 War Correspondent 6z
6 How are we to be Married? 73
7 The Long-imagined Quest 91
8 `I Cannot Die!' ioi
9 Canonizing Dr Livingstone 1' 7
1o `Fame is Useless to Me' 133
z i A Destiny Resumed 149
i z Love and the Longest journey 157
13 The Island of Death 117 1
14 `The Great Struggle with this Mystery' 193
15 `I Hate Evil and Love Good' zzo
16 A Colony fora King 233
17 A Banquet in Paris 257
18 After the Slave Raids z66
r9 Who Stole the Congo? z8o
zo A Pawn in Great Power Politics z89
21 `A Kind of Innocence' 298
zz Why Rescue Emin Pasha? 3113
23 A Fateful Decision 329
24 The Enigma of Emin Pasha 336
z5 `Evil Hangs over this Forest...' 354
z6 Keeping Emin Pasha's Secret 365
27 The Shape of Things to Come... 384
z8 Dorothy's Other Love 3 911
z9 Was the Emin Pasha Expedition Piratical? 407
3 o Africa or a Child 4115
3 r An End to `Noble Objects' 423
3z Stanley, Leopold and the Atrocities 443
33 `Before it is Too Late' 453
Afterword 464
Acknowledgements 476
Sources 478
Bibliography 48z
Notes 488
Index 547
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
i Stanley's birthplace, an engraving in Cadwalader Rowlands Henry M. Stanley: the
Story of his Life (187z) 18
z Civil War - Camp Douglas, a pencil drawing in Hermann W. Williams The Civil War:
The Artists' Record (119611-1196z) 47
3 James Gordon Bennett Jr, a line drawing in H.M. Stanley How I Found Livingstone
(1187z) 86
4 John Kirk, a photograph in Richard Hall Stanley, an Adventurer Explored(1974) 96
5 John Shaw and William Farquhar, a line drawing in H.M. Stanley How I Found
Livingstone (1187z) 97
6 Dr Livingstone, I presume? an engraving in H.M. Stanley How I Found Livingstone
(1[872.) 1[16
7 Dr Livingstone travelling through marshes weeks before his death, an engraving in
The Last Journals of David Livingstone ed. Horace Waller (11874) 1154
8 View from Mr Sparhawk's - F. Pocock, F. Barker, Zanzibar boy, E. Pocock, Kalulu
from the engraving (based on a photograph) in Stanley's Through the Dark Continent
vol i (1878) 161
9 Reception at Bumbireh, an engraving in H.M. Stanley Through the Dark Continent
vol i (11878) 176
io Tippu Tip, an engraving in H.M. Stanley In Darkest Africa vol i (189o) r9o
ii Death of Kalulu, an engraving in H.M. Stanley Through the Dark Continent vol ii
(11878) zo5
iz `Lady Alice' over the falls, an engraving in H.M. Stanley Through the Dark
Continent vol it (1878) 207
13 The women who completed the Trans-Africa journey, an engraving (based on a
photograph) in Through the Dark Continent vol ii (1[878) z1[8
114 Leopold II from a photograph in the Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale 23 5
1[5 Stanley in self-designed hat, a photograph in The Autobiography of Henry M.
Stanley ed. Dorothy Stanley (1[909) 2-42-
116 A steamer on the Upper Congo, an engraving in H.M. Stanley The Congo and the
Founding of Its Free State Congo vol i (11885) 2-44
117 Count Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, an engraving in H.M.Stanley The Congo and
the Founding of Its Free State Congo vol i (1[885) 247
118 Dualla, a photograph in the Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale z56
1[9 Emin Pasha, a line drawing in H.M. Stanley In Darkest Africa voli(1[890) 31[3
zo Yambuya Camp, a line drawing in James S. Jameson The Story of the Rear Column
and the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (11890) 335
z1[ `Fight with cannibals', an engraving in In Darkest Africa vol i (1[890) 338
zz The relief of Captain Robert Nelson, an engraving in In Darkest Africa vol i (11890)
343
23 Stanley meets Emin, an engraving in In Darkest Africa vol i (1[890) 349
2-4 Climbing the plateau slopes, an engraving in In Darkest Africa vol ii (11890) 367
z5 'Rescued'- Punch cartoon reproduced in Roger Jones The Rescue of Emin Pasha
(1[972) 379
z6 Sir Alfred Lyall, a photograph in Sir Mortimer Durand The Life of Sir Alfred Lyall
(119113) 395
27 Edward Glave, frontispiece of Glave's Six Years of Adventure in Congo-
Land(11895) 432