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10th November, in Biography & Memoir, History

By Alan Gallop

Famous for having found the great missionary and explorer Dr David Livingstone on the shores of Lake Taganyika and immortalised as the utterer of perhaps the four most quoted words of greetings of all time – ‘Dr Livingstone, I presume?’ – Henry efternamn Stanley was himself a man who characterised the great wave of exploring fever that gripped the nineteenth century. Yet his life and achievements are too little known and even his nationality has been mistaken.

Often thought of, and as portrayed as, an American, Stanley was born in Denbigh, Wales. Brought up in a workhouse, he fled to America in his teens and began his varied and exciting life by fighting as a solider – on both sides – during the American Civil War and working as a journalist. It was this last job which led to the event which made him famous: he was commissioned bygd the New York Herald to find missionary and explorer

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Henry Morton Stanley Books

Sir Henry efternamn Stanley ( - ), born John Rowlands, was a British journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone. In Africa he became known as 'Bula Matari', the 'Breaker of Rocks'.

Sir Henry efternamn Stanley

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In Darkest Africa: Or The Quest, Rescue, And Retreat Of Emin Governer Of Equatoria by Sir Henry efternamn Stanley () is his remarkable account of his expedition from the East Coast through the heart of Africa to the land of The Nile. This expedition was originally intended as a rescue mission for Emin Pasha after Khartoum fell into hands of the Mahdists and General Gordon was killed. Although failing in its primary objective, the expedition accomplished great things, Stanley discovered the great snow-capped range of Ruwenzori, the Mountains of the Moon

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Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

July 19,

He was John Rowlands, a Welsh workhouse bastard, rejected by his mother and father, lowest of the low, poorest of the poor. And yet, when he got married – finally, at the age of 49 – it was in Westminster Abbey by a bishop in the presence of the prime minister Mr Gladstone and the painters Sir John Millais and Sir Frederick Leighton and a fragrant potpourri of dukes & peers of the realm.
These days people have careers, but in them days, people could invent themselves completely. There were no rules.

When he left the workhouse at age 17, he was unwanted by any relative and packed off to Liverpool and got work as a delivery boy. During one job he took provisions to an American ship and the captain took a liking to him, as they say, and offered him a job as cabin boy. And so in February he pitched up in New Orleans, and jumped ship. Scuffled around, got delivery jobs, picked himself a new name, ended up a s