Henry Morton Stanley Books

Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841 - 1904), 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'.

In Darkest Africa: Or The Quest, Rescue, And Retreat Of Emin Governer Of Equatoria by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1891) 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, besides a new lake which he named the Albert Edward Nyanza. Vol I Free eBook Vol II Free eBook

Through The Dark Continent: Or The Sources Of The Nile, Around The Great Lakes Of Equatorial Africa And Down The Livingstone River To The Atlantic Ocean by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1890) is the story of the Anglo-American expedition to Central Africa, commanded by Stanley and undertaken between 1874 and 1877. The discovery of the course of the Congo, though the greatest, was but one of the many geographical problems solved during his memorable expedition. Vol I Free eBook Vol II Free eBook

Stanley's Story: Or Through The Wilds Of Africa. A Thrilling Narrative Of His Remarkable Adventures, Terrible Experiences, Wonderful Discoveries And Amazing Achievements In The Dark Continent, Southern And Central Africa by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1890) and edited by A G Feather from information, data and the official reports of Henry M Stanley.

The Autobiography Of Sir Henry M Stanley by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1909) and edited by his wife, Dorothy Stanley. Free eBook

Coomassie And Magdala: The Story Of Two British Campaigns by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1874) is Stanley's reporting and analysis of 2 major and successful British campaigns in East and West Africa as a special correspondent to the New York Herald. Free eBook

How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa, Including An Account Of Four Months' Residence with Dr Livingstone by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1891) Free eBook

My Kalulu, Prince, King And Slave: A Story of Central Africa by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1873) is Stanley's adventure novel for boys based loosely on the personal history of his young protegé, Kalulu. It is a romance based upon knowledge acquired during his journey in search of Dr. Livingstone, which began in 1871 and terminated in 1872. The book was written after the failure of his first lecture tour to America in 1872, and is dedicated to "all those who have aided to the suppression of slavery on the east coast of Africa". Free eBook

My Early Travels And Adventures In America And Asia by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1895). These 2 volumes contain Henry Morton Stanley's early journalistic writings during his travels in America and Asia from 1867 to 1869. Stanley is best-known for his subsequent African explorations, but these early works reveal much about his character and future ambitions. Vol I Free eBook Vol II Free eBook

The Congo And The Founding Of Its Free State: A Story Of Work And Exploration by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1885) this 2 volume work of exploration, history and socio-political economy is the result of Stanley's expedition up the Congo River in 1879-84 and his attempts to re-open the interior for King Leopold of Belgium. From this journey came the establishment of the Congo State, the first free commercial state in Equatorial Africa. Vol I Free eBook Vol II Free eBook

Africa: Its Partition And Its Future by Sir Henry Morton Stanley et al (1885) Free eBook

My Dark Companions And Their Strange Stories by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1893) is a collection of camp-fire stories, told by "real aborigines of the interior the choicest and most curious of those that were related to me during seventeen years." Free eBook

The Life, Labours, Perilous Adventures, And Discoveries of Dr. Livingstone: Nearly Thirty Years A Missionary Explorer In The Wilds Of Africa With A Thrilling Account Of His Resurrection by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1873) Free eBook

Story Of Emin's Rescue As Told In Stanley's Letters by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1890). Edited by J Scott Keltie. Free eBook

Click here to buy the 2005 movie Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone in DVD. A National Geographic TV presentation starring Dylan Baker and Edward Fox.

Books About Or Related To Sir Henry Morton Stanley:

John & Julie Batchelor

In Stanley's Footsteps by John & Julie Batchelor (1990). The authors travelled 3000 miles in the footsteps of explorer Henry Morton Stanley whose expedition began in 1887 and lasted for three years. They travelled by train, river boat, truck and dug-out from Matadi in Zaire across Central Africa to Zanzibar on the Indian Ocean. Their trip included 900 miles along the Zaire River and through the Ruwenzori Mountains.

John Bierman

Dark Safari: Life Behind The Legend Of Henry Morton Stanley by John Bierman (1990). With the help of newly discovered documents, the author leads the reader 'into the interior of both the man and the vast landmass he tamed'.

Martin Dugard

Into Africa: The Epic Adventures Of Stanley And Livingstone by Martin Dugard (2003) traces the amazing journeys of Livingstone and Stanley in alternating chapters. The author captures the perils and challenges these men faced. Woven into the narrative, Dugard tells an equally compelling story of the remarkable transformation that occurred over the course of nine years, as Stanley rose in power and prominence and Livingstone found himself alone and in mortal danger. It is the first book to draw on modern research and to explore the combination of adventure, politics and larger-than-life personalities. Buy Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone Audio Book

Tony Gould

In Limbo: Story Of Stanley's Rear Column by Tony Gould (1979). Stanley left five Englishmen at Yambuya with 250 porters and the bulk of the expedition's supplies, to be safeguarded for his return in four months. When Stanley returned fourteen months later, he found only one of his officers still there. Two were dead, a third invalided home and there were over a hundred graves at Yambuya. This is the first account of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition to take the episode of the rear column as the main narrative and in doing so an entirely new perspective unfolds.

Tim Jeal

Stanley: The Impossible Life Of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal (2007). With unprecedented access to previously closed Stanley family archives, the author reveals the amazing extent to which Stanley's public career and intimate life have been misunderstood and undervalued. Stanley's epic but unfairly forgotten African journeys are thrillingly described, establishing the explorer as the greatest to set foot on the continent.

Richard Hall

Stanley: An Adventurer Explored by Richard Hall (1974) is a biography with material from family archives and diaries of two of Stanley's companions on the great journey of 1874 to 1877.

Daniel Leibowitz & Charles Pearson

The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through The Congo by Daniel Leibowitz & Charles Pearson (2005) is an illuminating saga of the dark days of colonialism. Henry Morton Stanley undertook the greatest African expedition of the nineteenth century to rescue Emin Pasha. 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.

Blaine Littell

South Of The Moon: On Stanley's Trail Through The Dark Continent by Blaine Littell (1966) is the adventurous account of this former journalist's trek across modern Africa, repeating the voyage and route travelled by Henry Morton Stanley in the 1870s.

Olivia Manning

Olivia Mary Manning (1908 - 1980) was a British writer of non-fiction and novels.

The Remarkable Expedition: The Story Of Stanley's Rescue Of Emin Pasha From Equatorial Africa by Olivia Manning (1947) is an account of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition led by Henry Morton Stanley, celebrated for its ambition in crossing 'darkest Africa', and notorious for the deaths of so many of its members and the disease left in its wake.

Frank McLynn

Stanley: The Making Of An African Explorer 1841-1877 by Frank McLynn (1989). This biography of Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) concentrates on his life as an illegitimate boy and adolescent shunted off to a workhouse and on his early career as an explorer. McLynn seeks to expose the reasons why a man of such indomitable will, technical and tactical ability and personal bravery could behave so savagely.

Stanley: Dark Genius Of African Exploration by Frank McLynn (2004) depicts the disturbed personality behind the public man. A pathological liar with sadomasochistic tendencies, Stanley's achievements exacted a high human cost. As Frank McLynn's masterly study shows, his foundation of the Congo Free State on behalf of Leopold II of Belgium, and the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition were both dubious enterprises which tarnished his reputation, revealing the complex - and often troubling - relationship that Stanley had with Africa.

Hearts Of Darkness: The European Exploration Of Africa by Frank McLynn (1992) examines African explorers from Mungo Park's quest for the source of the Niger to the successful penetration nearly a century later of the last blank spots on the map by German, French, and English adventurers. Including a host of pith-helmeted explorers, most notably Burton, Livingstone, Speke and Stanley. It provides interesting insights about everything from favoured apparel (umbrellas, dark glasses) to porterage styles (on foot, because of the tsetse fly affect on domesticated animals) to the eating habits of the black mamba.

Douglas C Percy

Andrew Park Stirrett (1865 - 1948) was born into a Scottish family in Canada. While studying medicine, he read a pamphlet about Sudan and became determined to go there. However the Sudan Interior Mission in Canada didn't think he was suitable. So he got himself hired on a ship on as crew and took a very rough voyage across the Atlantic while tending cattle on board. When landed in Liverpool, he took a course in tropical medicine and then proceeded on to West Africa, arriving in 1902. He worked there for the next 46 years with the Hausa people of West Africa, travelling extensively over northern Nigeria, usually by foot or by bicycle.

He met Henry Morton Stanley and they went on a long trek together to the location where Stanley was to be stationed. Stanley spoke with great admiration of the 'Bature Mai Magani', the 'White Doctor'. Stanley also related Stirrett's strange dietary habits - he would eat only one food for a while, and then another at a later date. When first met him, the diet was yam cooked in palm oil, and being a very strict Presbyterian, Stirrett would not build a fire on Sundays, so he would eat cold yam and cold palm oil.

Stirrett Of The Sudan: Nigeria's Beloved Physician by Douglas C Percy (1948) is a missionary biography of a man with a mind of his own, a tireless and fearless explorer and a compassionate doctor. This book does not refer to modern day Sudan, it is about Nigeria, which used to be called Sudan.

Thomas Stevens

Thomas Stevens (1854 - 1935) was an English traveller and writer who was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle. He later was asked by 'The New York World' in 1888 to join its search in East Africa for Henry Morton Stanley as there had been no news of him for over a year.

Scouting For Stanley In East Africa by Thomas Stevens (1890) is about his six-month expedition looking for Stanley and writing for the 'The New York World' newspaper of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and hunting big game. He found Stanley's camp first, beating a rival 'New York Herald' expedition. Free eBook

Jacob Wassermann

Bula Matari: Stanley Conqueror Of A Continent by Jacob Wassermann (1932). An early biography of Henry Morton Stanley, including of course, the famous meeting with Livingstone.

Alphonse-Jules Wauters

Stanley's Emin Pasha Expedition by Alphonse-Jules Wauters (1890) is an account of Stanley's last and most difficult journey. Stanley was put in charge of an army of rifleman formed by the Emin Pasha Relief Committee to secure the rescue of the Emin Pasha. The rescue was undertaken after the fall of Khartoum when it was discovered that the Emin Pasha was holding out against the Mahdi's hordes.

Books by the men who accompanied Henry Morton Stanley on his expeditions.