Download or read book My Life with Stanley s Rear Guard written by Herbert Ward and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Life with Stanley s Rear Guard written by Herbert WARD (Traveller.) and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Travellers in Africa written by Timothy Youngs and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are revealed in their relation to a range of objects and commodities mentioned in narratives. For instance, beads occupy the dual role of currency and commodity. The book deals with Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, and attempts to prove that racial representations are in large part determined by the cultural conditions of the traveller's society. By looking at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it argues that the text is best read as what it purports to be: a kind of travel narrative. Only when it is seen as such and is regarded in the context of the fin de siecle can one begin to appreciate both the extent and the limitations of Conrad's innovativeness.
Download or read book Explorers of the Nile written by Tim Jeal and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “highly enjoyable” account of six men, and one woman, who journeyed into uncharted and treacherous African terrain to find the source of the White Nile (The Washington Post). Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth century more than the quest to discover the source of the White Nile. It was the planet’s most elusive secret, the prize coveted above all others. Between 1856 and 1876, six larger-than-life men and one extraordinary woman accepted the challenge. Showing extreme courage and resilience, Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, James Augustus Grant, Samuel Baker, Florence von Sass, David Livingstone, and Henry Morton Stanley risked their lives and reputations in the fierce competition. National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Tim Jeal deploys fascinating new research to provide a vivid tableau of the unmapped “Dark Continent,” its jungle deprivations, and the courage—as well as malicious tactics—of the explorers. On multiple forays launched into east and central Africa, the travelers passed through almost impenetrable terrain and suffered the ravages of flesh-eating ulcers, paralysis, malaria, deep spear wounds, and even death. They discovered Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria and became the first white people to encounter the kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro. Jeal weaves the story with authentic new detail—and examines the tragic unintended legacy of the Nile search that still casts a long shadow over the people of Uganda and Sudan. “A fabulous story…old-fashioned epic adventure.”—The Sunday Times "Superb narrative…a must-read for anyone hoping to understand the internal dynamics of modern state-building in central Africa.”—Booklist
Download or read book The Last Expedition written by Daniel Liebowitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Morton Stanley undertook the greatest African expedition of the 19th century to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan. Instead of ten months, the trip took three years and cost the lives of thousands of people, as Stanley's column hacked its way across the last great, unexplored territory in Africa. Stanley's secret agenda was territorial expansion on the model of Leopold's Congo or the British East India Company.
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Travels Explorations and Empires Part II vol 7 written by Peter J Kitson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.
Download or read book The Arena written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Supplement to the Catalogue of the Library of Parliament in Alphabetical and Subject Order written by Canada. Parliment. Library and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Report of the joint librarians of Parliament" (in English and French) included in each number.
Download or read book Annual Supplement to the Catalogue of the Library of Parliament in Alphabetical and Subject Order written by Canada. Library of Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imperial Footprints written by James L. Newman and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” The man who uttered those famous words was compared with Christopher Columbus in his day and became one of the late nineteenth century’s most newsworthy figures. Yet, one hundred years after Henry Morton Stanley’s death, his accomplishments in Africa have largely receded from public memory or have been discredited as epitomizing the wrongs inflicted by the scourge of European colonialism and its “scramble for Africa.” While numerous writers have attempted to describe the man, sometimes through highly speculative means, our understanding of the most notable aspect of Stanley’s life, his relationship to the continent, isn’t much more advanced than it was one hundred years ago. To fill this void, James L. Newman re-creates Stanley’s seven epic African journeys, explaining why he made them, what transpired en route, and what resulted. He highlights Stanley’s determination to succeed despite incredible odds and his various relationships with the people who enabled him to accomplish his objectives. And while he acknowledges Stanley’s less admirable traits, such as his penchant for stretching the truth, his capacity to be ruthless, and his tendency to demean others, Newman refuses to engage in facile speculation. Instead, he focuses on the words and deeds of a man who played a major role in shaping today’s Africa. James L. Newman’s in-depth research, detailed descriptions, and vivid prose make Stanley and Africa both a fascinating read and a notable contribution to the study of Africa, exploration, and the age of empire.
Download or read book The Dial written by Francis Fisher Browne and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travel Writing and Atrocities written by Robert Burroughs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at travelogues, ethnographic monographs, consular reports, diaries and letters, sketches, photography and more, Burroughs examines eyewitness travel reports of atrocities committed in European-funded slave regimes in the Congo Free State, Portuguese West Africa, and the Putumayo district of the Amazon rainforest during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. As Burroughs articulates, as well as bringing home to readers ongoing brutalities, eyewitness narratives importantly contributed to debates on humanitarianism, trade, colonialism, and race and racial prejudice in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
Download or read book Mark Twain s Letters to His Publishers 1867 1894 written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1967-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 290 letters, not previously published, charting the matters concerning publication of the author's books from 1867 through 1894.
Download or read book African Exploits written by William G. Stairs and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of the experiences of a young Canadian caught up in European expansion into Africa in the 1880s, African Exploits provides a disturbing record of William Stairs's two African expeditions and the devastating clash of cultures that occurred during the imperial scramble for the "dark continent."
Download or read book Catalogue of the Circulating Department written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
