This powerful and broad treatment of Africa and of King Leopold's Belgian Congo, is a brilliant account of Stanley's travels, especially his Trans-Africa journey down the Congo to the Atlantic seaboard. However, this deeply researched biography based on newly accessible sources, gives a new insight into Stanley's reasons for his purposely obscured early life, and has produced not only a reassessment but a rehabilitation of this much-maligned and little understood explorer.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 53 September 2009 ) |
