STANLEY: THE MAKING OF AN AFRICAN EXPLORER. By Frank McLynn.

(1988) 1990 1st US edition. 8vo (158 x 244mm). Pp411. B/w photograph plates, b/w illustrations, bibliography. Map end-papers. Two-tone yellow boards, gilt titles to green spine.

This is a detailed and interesting story of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, pioneering explorer of tropical Africa. "Stanley is by any reckoning a key figure in the history of the European penetration of the African continent. He was also a man of intriguing psychological complexity - a complexity which Frank McLynn probes with sensitivity and understanding. In this book, the author focuses on the years 1841-1877, the most dramatic and fascinating years of Stanley's long life."