The Great Opportunist; Don't presume you know the strange truth about Henry Morton Stanley. The Washington Post | December 23, 2007 | . This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

STANLEY

The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

By Tim Jeal

Yale Univ. 570 pp. $38It's hard to imagine a more intriguing -- and intimidating -- challenge to the biographer's art than the life of journalist, explorer and continental opportunist Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904). He is rare among celebrities of centuries past, in that the years have not transmuted his fame into benign augustness nor obscurity, but rather into infamy: Post- Victorian sensibilities have long since extinguished the heroic light once cast upon Stanley's expeditions into so-called "darkest Africa." ...

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