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Stanley and Livingston Booklist

 

Fiction and Nonfiction about Stanley and Livingston.

 

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

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Fiction

• The Last Hero
  Author: Forbath, Peter
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 21.95 ISBN: 0671242857 Date: 1988
  Exciting historical fiction about Stanley's military rescue of Emin Pasha - involving a treacherous trek through the Congo. Forbath is the author of the nonfiction book, The River Congo.
  Updated 10.11.05
• The Whales of Lake Tanganyika
  Author: Hagerfors, Lennart
  Publisher: Grove $16.95 ISBN: 0802110959 Date: 1989
  Stanley searches for Livingston with the aid of the troubled Shaw, who records the expedition events in his diary.
  Updated 10.11.05

Nonfiction

• Dark Safarai: The Life Behind the Legend of Henry Morton Stanley
  Author: Bierman, John
  Publisher: Knopf $ 24.95 ISBN: 0394583426 Date: 1990
  Kirkus
  An exploration of the darkest heart of the man who greeted the explorer David Livingstone with the phrase", Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" John Bierman, with the help of the newly discovered Stanley letters, leads readers into the interior of both the man and the Africa he tamed.
  Updated 10.11.05
• Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
  Author: Dugard, Martin
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 24.95 ISBN: 0385504519 Date: 2003
  Kirkus
  Into Africa traces the journeys of Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Morton Stanley in alternating chapters, capturing with immediacy the dangers, disease, and beauty they encountered in the heart of Africa. The first book to examine the interworkings of physical challenges, political intrigue, and larger-than life personalities, this is a fascinating work of narrative history.
  Updated 1.26.03
• Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo
  Author: Liebowitz, Daniel & Charlie Pearson
  Publisher: Norton $ 25.95 ISBN: 0393059030 Date: 2005
  LJ
  Henry Morton Stanley undertook the greatest African expedition of the 19th century to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan. Instead of ten months, the trip took three years and cost the lives of thousands of people, as Stanley's column hacked its way across the last great, unexplored territory in Africa. Stanley's secret agenda was territorial expansion on the model of Leopold's Congo or the British East India Company.
  Suggested Reading: Congo
  Updated 6.9.05