The Last Expedition : Stanley
The Last Expedition : Stanley
The Last Expedition : Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo.cCharles Pearson
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Author: Charles Pearson
Number of Pages: 400 pages
Published Date: 13 Mar 2009
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780393328738
Download Link: The Last Expedition Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo
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Henry Morton Stanley undertook the greatest African expedition of the nineteenth century to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan. Emin had been cut off by an Islamic jihad to the north and was at the mercy of brutal slave traders. 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, and what is revealed so vividly in the diaries of those who accompanied him is the dark underside of both the man and the colonial impulse. The expedition took whatever it wanted from the Africans, and when Africans were killed defending their possessions, they didn't even rate an entry in Stanley's journal.
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The Last Expedition : Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo.cCharles Pearson
Author: Charles Pearson
Number of Pages: 400 pages
Published Date: 13 Mar 2009
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780393328738
Download Link: The Last Expedition Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo
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Henry Morton Stanley undertook the greatest African expedition of the nineteenth century to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan. Emin had been cut off by an Islamic jihad to the north and was at the mercy of brutal slave traders. 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, and what is revealed so vividly in the diaries of those who accompanied him is the dark underside of both the man and the colonial impulse. The expedition took whatever it wanted from the Africans, and when Africans were killed defending their possessions, they didn't even rate an entry in Stanley's journal.
Read online The Last Expedition : Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo Buy and read online The Last Expedition : Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo Download and read The Last Expedition : Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook The Last Expedition : Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo