a Noble Rescue Mission Descends Into A Nightmare Of Cruelty, Starvation, And Cannibalism, Bringing To A Close The European Exploration Of Africa. Liebowitz And Pearson Have Written An Illuminating Saga Of The Dark Days Of Colonialism.—national Geographic Adventure
publishers Weeklyin This Engrossing Chronicle Of A Noble Rescue Mission Turned Sour, The Monstrosities Come As Often From Its Central Character As They Do From The Forests Of Equatoria That He And His Officers Explored. Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) Was An Unwanted Bastard Who Became Arguably The Victorian Era's Greatest Explorer. Liebowitz, A Retired Physician, And Tv Documentary Writer Pearson Reason Convincingly That The Shame Of Stanley's Dickensian Childhood Gave Rise To His Hunger For Glory And His Nonexistent Empathy: Almost Prerequisites For The 1886-1889 Mission (to Rescue The Governor Of Equatoria, Now The Southern Part Of Sudan) That Was The Pretext For Stanley's Expedition. The Authors Move To Great Effect Between The Record Of Events In Stanley's Journal And Those Of His Officers. The Book Becomes Slightly Tedious In Its Overly Detailed Slog Through The Three-year Trek, In Which A Key Colleague Went Mad, A Good Half Of The Expedition Died And The Survivors Arrived Too Late. After Almost 300 Lugubrious Pages, The Final Chapters Relating The Aftermath Of The Expedition Make For Quicker, If No Less Dark, Reading. This Account May Have Too Much Logistical Minutiae For Mass Appeal, But History Buffs And Students Of Colonial And African Studies Will Find It Purposefully Harrowing. Agent, Inkwell Management. (july 25) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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- History
- General
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Author : Liebowitz, Daniel,Pearson, Charles
Language : English
Edition : Illustrated
Published :2006-07-17
Number Of Pages : 402
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0393328732
ISBN-13 : 9780393328738
Item weight : 1.05 lb
Dimensions : 1.14 in x 5.47 in x 8.5 in
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