Tim Jeal: Stanley [2007] hardback LBIO from the GREAT BRITISH SEWING

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Tim Jeal: Stanley [2007] hardback LBIO from the GREAT BRITISH SEWINGHenry Morton Stanley, so the tale goes, was a cruel imperialist a bad man of Africa who connived with King Leopold II of Belgium in horrific crimes against the people of the Congo. He also conducted the most legendary celebrity interview in history, remembered in the words 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, none of these perceptions is quite true. The reality of Stanley's life even by the exceptional