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At Stanley Falls close to Kisangani, Wagenia fisherman skilfully uses his scoop net Congo river fisherman at Lukolela village, lower Congo I was alone in the middle of deepest, darkest Congo. Worse still, I was being chased by eight angry tribesmen in tw
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In the first episode of (BBC Two) Scots presenter Neil Oliver, he of Coast fame, profiled his countryman, the 19th-century explorer David Livingstone. It took an awful long time to get to the famous bit about Livingstone: the words “Dr Livingstone, I pre
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230 just seems like a nice number. It seems like the kind of number that will come over to your house unannounced but bearing gifts. And not some chump gift either, something useful like a second Wii controller. To get to 230 goals, Henry would have to s
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Explorers of the Nile is a brilliant, scholarly and at times almost unreadably vivid account of the two decades in the middle of the 19th century when the search for the Nile’s source in central Africa was at its height, told through the interlocking sto
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Explorers of the Nile — The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure — By Tim Jeal — Book Review
The New York Times
From “Explorers of the Nile” The Makata Swamp crossed by Stanley. In the early 1870s in what is now Zambia, David Livingstone, the greatest of all Victorian explorers, led several expeditions in search of the source of the Nile. At times, he could barely
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In 1887, Henry Morton Stanley went up the Congo River and inadvertently started a disastrous experiment. This was long after his first journey into Africa, as a journalist for an American newspaper in 1871, when he’d become famous by finding a Scottish m
About Henry Morton Stanley
Wikipedia
Sir Henry Morton Stanley , GCB, born John Rowlands (January 28, 1841 – May 10, 1904), was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone. Stanley is often remembered for the words uttered to Livingstone upon finding him: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?", although there is some question as... Full Article
