Good biographies of Stanley? Livingstone?

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Or Brazza? Basically African explorers. I'm reading The Scramble for Africa, and the bits about those guys are tantalisingly brief. So, before I go looking on Amazon, I thought I'd ask you guys first.

You know the kind of thing I like. I don't want My Search for Stanley: a modern layabout recreates the expeditions of HM Stanley, or any crap like that. I want proper.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 7 October 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

There is a new biography of Stanley out, but you already know this as it was reviewed in the LRB.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Not terribly on-topic as far as being bios, but I recall enjoying The White Nile and The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead when I read them a couple years ago.

― MsLaura, Friday, 18 May 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

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