My early travels and adventures in America and Asia / by Henry M. Stanley

Stanley, Henry Morton (1841-1904)

ISBN 10: 0715630857 / ISBN 13: 9780715630853

Edité par London : Duckworth, 2001

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An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 320 pages; Description: 320 p. : ill. , maps, ports ; 20 cm. Subject: Stanley, Henry Morton (1841-1904) --Travel --West (U.S.) --Indians of North America. Series: Duckworth Discoveries. Summary: Sir Henry Stanley is best known for his explorations in Africa and his search for Livingstone, but as a journalist he travelled widely in the USA, Europe, Asia and India. In this gripping volume of dispatches, he writes poignantly about his journeys in the USA, giving a vivid account of the suppression of the indigenous American peoples in the West. 1 Kg.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: My early travels and adventures in America and Asia / by Henry M. Stanley
• Éditeur: London : Duckworth
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0715630857
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780715630853
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: 1st Duckworth Edition.
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Poids: 1 kilogramme

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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. Stanley's reports in Volume 1 cover General Hancock's military expedition against the Cheyenne and the Sioux peoples in Kansas and Nebraska, and the subsequent peace conferences between General Sherman and the Plains Indians. He paints a vivid picture of life in 1867 in this area of the United States through in-depth descriptions of the customs and living conditions of the native Indians, geographical features and military confrontations.