This big popular compilation retells the career of Henry Morton Stanley, including the founding of the Congo Free State and the expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, and the work of earlier explorers and missionaries. It moves from Egypt and the sources of the Nile to the Zambesi, the Congo, the Cape and Nyassaland, ending with Africa’s resources. Its view of Africans and of empire is that of an American writer of 1889.
A vivid period piece that shows how the scramble for Africa was sold to readers at home. Download the free EPUB.