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The bombastic, bullying, belligerent and unbelievably brave African explorer Henry Morton Stanley was born John Rowlands, Bastard in Denbighshire, a fact he concealed all his life. Driven by rejection and humiliation throughout an appalling childhood in a Welsh orphanage, he escaped as a teenager to reinvent himself in America and become a front-rank journalist. His great moment of fame, as all the world knows, came when he was to speak the four best-known words ever uttered by any intrepid explorer, rendering himself immediately immortal! But there was much more to Stanley than that: his expedition in 1887 to rescue the dodgy Emin Pasha from the clutches of the murderous Mahdi is as thrilling as anything in Boys' Own fiction. Not a nice man perhaps, but a real hero and brilliantly recreated here as a simply corking page-turner. (Kirkus UK)

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Alan Gallop is a journalist and author. His previous books include Buffalo Bill's British Wild West and Children of the Dark, Life and Death Underground in Victoria's England.

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