Tim Jeal - Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africas Greatest Explorer

by the same author

Non-fiction

LIVINGSTONE

BADEN-POWELL

SWIMMING WITH MY FATHER

Fiction

SOMEWHERE BEYOND REPROACH

CUSHING'S CRUSADE

THE MISSIONARY'S WIFE

DEEP WATER

The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

TIM JEAL

To my sister, Thomasina

... away from people who had already made up their minds about me, I could be different. I could introduce myself as ... a boy of dignity and consequence, and without any reason to doubt me people would believe I was that boy. I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others ...

Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life

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i Stanley's birthplace, an engraving in Cadwalader Rowlands Henry M. Stanley: the Story of his Life (187z) 18

z Civil War - Camp Douglas, a pencil drawing in Hermann W. Williams The Civil War: The Artists' Record (119611-1196z) 47

3 James Gordon Bennett Jr, a line drawing in H.M. Stanley How I Found Livingstone (1187z) 86

4 John Kirk, a photograph in Richard Hall Stanley, an Adventurer Explored(1974) 96

5 John Shaw and William Farquhar, a line drawing in H.M. Stanley How I Found Livingstone (1187z) 97

6 Dr Livingstone, I presume? an engraving in H.M. Stanley How I Found Livingstone (1[872.) 1[16

7 Dr Livingstone travelling through marshes weeks before his death, an engraving in The Last Journals of David Livingstone ed. Horace Waller (11874) 1154

8 View from Mr Sparhawk's - F. Pocock, F. Barker, Zanzibar boy, E. Pocock, Kalulu from the engraving (based on a photograph) in Stanley's Through the Dark Continent vol i (1878) 161

9 Reception at Bumbireh, an engraving in H.M. Stanley Through the Dark Continent vol i (11878) 176

io Tippu Tip, an engraving in H.M. Stanley In Darkest Africa vol i (189o) r9o

ii Death of Kalulu, an engraving in H.M. Stanley Through the Dark Continent vol ii (11878) zo5

iz `Lady Alice' over the falls, an engraving in H.M. Stanley Through the Dark Continent vol it (1878) 207

13 The women who completed the Trans-Africa journey, an engraving (based on a photograph) in Through the Dark Continent vol ii (1[878) z1[8

114 Leopold II from a photograph in the Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale 23 5

1[5 Stanley in self-designed hat, a photograph in The Autobiography of Henry M. Stanley ed. Dorothy Stanley (1[909) 2-42

116 A steamer on the Upper Congo, an engraving in H.M. Stanley The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State Congo vol i (11885) 2-44

117 Count Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, an engraving in H.M.Stanley The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State Congo vol i (1[885) 247

118 Dualla, a photograph in the Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale z56

1[9 Emin Pasha, a line drawing in H.M. Stanley In Darkest Africa voli(1[890) 31[3

zo Yambuya Camp, a line drawing in James S. Jameson The Story of the Rear Column and the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (11890) 335

z1[ `Fight with cannibals', an engraving in In Darkest Africa vol i (1[890) 338

zz The relief of Captain Robert Nelson, an engraving in In Darkest Africa vol i (11890) 343

23 Stanley meets Emin, an engraving in In Darkest Africa vol i (1[890) 349

2-4 Climbing the plateau slopes, an engraving in In Darkest Africa vol ii (11890) 367

z5 'Rescued'- Punch cartoon reproduced in Roger Jones The Rescue of Emin Pasha (1[972) 379

z6 Sir Alfred Lyall, a photograph in Sir Mortimer Durand The Life of Sir Alfred Lyall (119113) 395

27 Edward Glave, frontispiece of Glave's Six Years of Adventure in Congo-Land(11895) 432

11 Bowling Green Cottage, Denbigh, a photograph in the Stanley Family Archive (SFA), Christie's Images

z St Asaph Workhouse, a photograph in The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (11909 )

3 Stanley's mother, Elizabeth Jones (nee Parry) in middle age, from the collection of Robert Owen

4 Stanley's first love, Catherine Parry, a photograph in the West Glamorgan Archives

5 John Rowlands aged fifteen, a photograph in SFA, Christie's Images

6 The first photograph of Stanley taken in America, SFA, Christie's Images

7 Stanley aged twenty shortly before fighting in the Civil War, a photograph in The Autobiography of Henry M.Stanley (r9o9)

8 Lewis Noe, a photograph in Richard Hall Stanley: An Adventurer Explored (11974)

9 Stanley in his bogus American naval officer's uniform in 11866, a photograph in the Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale

11o Stanley photographed in Alexandria in June 11868, a photograph in the estate of the late Quentin Keynes, sold Christie's 7 April 2004

r r David Livingstone in England in 118 6 5 before his final return to Africa

112 Stanley wearing Arab dress on the Somali coast in 11869, photograph in SFA, Christie's Images

113 The hats Stanley and Livingstone were wearing on the day of their meeting, now in the Royal Geographical Society

14 Stanley's carriers crossing the Makata swamp, a hand-painted glass lantern slide based on an engraving in Stanley's How I Found Livingstone (1872.), Christie's Images

1 5 A bearded Stanley photographed on Zanzibar with Selim and Kalulu after the Livingstone meeting, in SFA, Christie's images

16 Stanley aged 31 after `finding' Livingstone, a studio portrait by the Stereoscopic & Photographic Co., of Regent Street and Cheapside

117 'Lookout, you drop that box - I'll shoot you.' A lantern slide based on the engraving facing page 642 of Stanley's How I Found Livingstone

18 The jewel-encrusted snuff box given to Stanley by Queen Victoria in 1872

19 Emilia Webb of Newstead Abbey, a wash drawing at Newstead Abbey owned by Nottingham City Council

zo Alice Pike at the time of her engagement to Stanley, SFA, Christie's Images

zi A romantically dressed Stanley in 1874, a photograph in The Autobiography of Henry M. Stanley ('909)

zz Stanley on the South Downs near Brighton with the journalist J.C. Parkinson, a photograph in the RGS

23 Some of Stanley's principal Wangwana carriers and their headmen on his great trans-Africa journey, a photograph in the Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale

24 Stanley in Paris in August 1884 with friends of Edward King, from the photograph in Richard Hall Stanley, an Adventurer Explored (1974)

z5 Stanley with Uledi and Manwa Sera in 1877, a photograph in the Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale

z6 Stanley in Paris with old friend and colleague, Anthony Swinburne, late January 1887, a photograph in the Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale

27 Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition officers: Major Edmund M.Barttelot, James S. Jameson, Arthur J. Mounteney Jephson, Sergeant William Bonny, Dr Thomas H. Parke, Lieutenant William G. Stairs, from plates in The Life of Edmund M. Barttelot ed. W.G. Barttelot (ii 89o), Story of the Rear Column ed. Mrs J.S. Jameson (189o), and The Diary of A.J. Mounteney

z8 Stanley lecturing about the Emin Pasha Expedition, from The Graphic io May 1890

z9 Dorothy Tennant in 1189o, taken by Eveleen Myers, photograph in the Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale

30 Stanley in r89o, the year of his marriage, a photograph in the Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale

311 Stanley, Jephson, Nelson and Stairs after the Emin Pasha Expedition, a photograph in the Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale