Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer Tim Jeal Henry Morton Stanley was the most dazzling - and misunderstood - African adventurer in the great age of discovery. Yet today he is remembered mainly for a question he never uttered ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"). in this grand and colorful biography, Tim Jeal draws on previously closed archives to unveil intimately, for the first time, the real Stanley - a dauntless but vulnerable man, shaped by a nightmarish British childhood and by ten drama-packed years in America that gave birth to the explorer. The dangers, joys, and terrible suffering of Stanley's three great African journeys are vividly recreated, along with the courage that enabled him to solve Africa's most enduring mysteries. Tim Jeal is the author of two previous biographies, Livingstone and Baden-Powell: Founder of the Boy Scouts, both published by Yale University Press and both chosen as Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times and the Washington Post