My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia

Published in 1895, these two volumes contain the early travel writings of the prolific explorer H. M. Stanley (1841–1904).

Henry Morton Stanley (Author)

9781108032988, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 September 2011

442 pages, 1 b/w illus. 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.56 kg

Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) was a journalist and explorer renowned for his adventures in Africa. After emigrating to America in 1859, Stanley worked as a journalist for the New York Herald. In 1869 he was instructed to undertake an expedition to find the missionary David Livingstone, and the success of this mission brought him public recognition and financial success. Published in 1895, these two volumes contain Stanley's early journalistic writing as special correspondent for the Herald and the Missouri Democrat. Volume 2 begins in 1869, when Stanley was sent to report on the inauguration of the Suez Canal, to write a guide to the Nile and to give an account of Sir Charles Warren's explorations underneath Jerusalem, before proceeding through Persia to India. Displaying his characteristic energy, versatility and direct writing style throughout, Stanley portrays, in the words of his publisher, 'life-like pictures of times gone by'.

1. The tongue of the Egyptian Sea
2. The Egyptian Napoleon
3. The maritime capital of the Suez Isthmus
4. The greatest drama in Egyptian history
5. Ismailia
6. A modern guide for travel on the great river, and grand fluvial contrasts
7. Denderah, or Tentyra, to Thebes
8. From Thebes to Philae
9. Exploration of underground Jerusalem
10. Jealousies excited by the explorations below Jerusalem
11. Constantinople to Sinope
12. Tiflis
13. Tiflis to Bakû
14. A convict bound to Siberia
15. Bakû
16. Resht
17. The ancient royal city of Kasvin
18. The bazaar of Teheran
19. The Indo-European telegraph
20. Isfahan
21. Farewell to Isfahan
22. The ruins of Istakhr and fortress
23. Shiraz
Index.

Subject Areas: General & world history [HBG]