In 1887, Henry Morton Stanley went up the Congo River and inadvertently started a disastrous experiment. This was long after his first journey into Africa, as a journalist for an American newspaper in ...
Biographical note (applying to all items in M184): Although "never published" it would seem that Stanley had his lectures printed for three reasons, ease of delivery, to register copyright (some of ...
Stanley's second expedition, which was sponsored jointly by the Daily telegraph and James Gordon Bennett, was in many ways his greatest. In his account of the expedition, he describes how he took with ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The 22-pound rifle, which fired a quarter-pound of lead with each shot “was ...
Most famous for allegedly uttering the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume," Henry Morton Stanley was one of the most well-known of all nineteenth-century British explorers. In his early years (as a ...
David Nicoll berates Stanley and his cheerleaders in the press who thought that massacring Africans in the cause of ‘civilising’ them was a price… ...
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