Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer - Tim Jeal - Google Books

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"A magnificent new life . . . [and] a superb adventure story. . . . 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…