I'm about to launch into Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

by Tim Jeal.

I was motivated to buy this book strangely enough by seeing a movie about Stanley with Spencer Tracy last week. It made me want to know more.

[HeresyLives]

1. "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?",

Ahh the African adventure tales of my youth!

[murielm99]

2. Please be sure to let us know how you liked it. n/t

[Yupster]

3. I think he was a Confederate soldier

during the Civil War and was captured at Shiloh. Then he served in the union navy to get out of prison. Quite an interesting life if I'm remembering correctly.

From England, served on ship as youth, got off in New Orleans and was adopted by a southern family.

Or maybe I'm thinking of someone else.

[Hannah Bell]

4. "James Jameson, heir to an Irish whiskey manufacturer, bought an eleven-year old girl and offered

her to cannibals to document and sketch how she was cooked and eaten. Stanley only found out when Jameson had died of fever."