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Dugard has written a history of the famous meeting of Dr. David
Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley in east Africa. Victorian explorer
extraordinaire, Livingstone returned to Africa in 1866 to search for
the disputed source of the Nile for the Royal Geographical Society.
Stanley, a reporter for the New York Herald, was sent to Africa in 1870
to find Livingstone, who was feared dead. His dispatches continued to
fan the flame of worldwide interest in Livingstone while also managing
to "twist the tiger's tale" by condemning the British for
abandoning their hero. Dugard details how the expeditions were conceived
and equipped, the land through which they traveled, the tribes they
encountered, the horrific evidence of the slave trade, and the dangers
experienced.
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Also by this author:
Farther
than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook; Simon &
Schuster Adult Publishing Group: July 2002
Knockdown: The Harrowing True Account of a Yacht Race Turned Deadly;
Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group; August 2000
Surviving the Toughest Race on Earth; The McGraw-Hill Companies;
October 1999
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