Your headwear, I presume: Henry Morton Stanley's pith helmet.

Geographical | September 1, 2006 | Copyright

Born John Rowlands in 1841, Henry Morton Stanley spent his childhood in a workhouse in Wales. Disenchanted with his lot in life, he left Denbigh in 1857 and made his way to Liverpool where, working as a cabin boy, he earned his passage to New Orleans.

Having entered into the patronage of a wealthy merchant by the name of Henry Hope Stanley--whose name he later took as a mark of respect--he managed to find work with the New York Herald as a foreign correspondent. It was under the paper's commission that he travelled to Africa in 1869 in search of Dr David Livingstone, ...

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