The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (740 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393059030 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Apocalypse Then This is the most engrossing book I've read this year. Like Conrad's _Heart of Darkness_, it combines vivid adventure narrative with disturbing psychological drama. Stanley was a complex figure--intelligent, stubborn, charismatic, sometimes generous and sometimes brutal. The authors disentangle all the complex threads of the story as Stanley's exped. "Mad Journey! Mayhem, Murder and More" according to Loves the View. The trip isn't bad enough - a Mad Journey! Mayhem, Murder and More The trip isn't bad enough - a 3000 mile walk in an equatorial climate with no food - the crew has to put up with Stanley! He is a nightmare of egotism, buck passing, cruel punishment, petty intrigue and verbal abuse. The men starve, yes to death, as he squirrels away food and metes out lashings that could kill a healthy man and do kill some in his . 000 mile walk in an equatorial climate with no food - the crew has to put up with Stanley! He is a nightmare of egotism, buck passing, cruel punishment, petty intrigue and verbal abuse. The men starve, yes to death, as he squirrels away food and metes out lashings that could kill a healthy man and do kill some in his . One hell of a trip This is about as gripping an African explorer's yarn as you are likely to find. It tells the story of a misguided 1887 mission by the famed Henry M. Stanley (who had "found" David Livingstone a decade earlier) to rescue one Emin Pasha, a curious European figure only vaguely associated with Stanley's Victorian Britain. In clear, succinct fashion we
From Publishers Weekly In 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. (July 25)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. 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. The book becomes slightly tedious in its
Traces Henry Morton Stanley's three-year African expedition that was launched with the official intention of rescuing Emin Pasha, governor of the southern Sudan, in an account that reveals Stanley's secret agenda of territorial expansion.