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8vo. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. x + [ii] + 499 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper. Minor wear to extremities, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 8 pages of black and white plates. Map endpapers. ' The second volume of the two part biography of Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), Welsh-American journalist and African explorer. It covers the period of his life, 1877-1904, when he outwitted the nations of Europe to provide Leopold II, King of the Belgians with a personal fief in the heart of Africa, the Congo; also the disasters of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1886-90, which damaged his reputation. The author, Frank McLynn (b.1941) is well known as an historical biographer.