My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia

Name: My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia
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ISBN: 9781108032988

ISBN-10: 1108032982

ISBN-13: 9781108032988

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Authors: Henry Morton Stanley

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Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was a journalist and explorer renowned for his adventures in Africa. After emigrating to America in 1859, Stanley worked as a journalist for the New York Herald. In 1869 he was instructed to undertake an expedition to find the missionary David Livingstone, and the success of this mission brought him public recognition and financial success. Published in 1895, these two volumes contain Stanley's early journalistic writing as special correspondent for the Herald and the Missouri Democrat. Volume 2 begins in 1869, when Stanley was sent to report on the inauguration of the Suez Canal, to write a guide to the Nile and to give an account of Sir Charles…

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List price: $60.95
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/22/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 442
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English




The tongue of the Egyptian Sea



The Egyptian Napoleon



The maritime capital of the Suez Isthmus



The greatest drama in Egyptian history



Ismailia



A modern guide for travel on the great river, and grand fluvial contrasts



Denderah, or Tentyra, to Thebes



From Thebes to Philae



Exploration of underground Jerusalem



Jealousies excited by the explorations below Jerusalem



Constantinople to Sinope



Tiflis



Tiflis to Bakï¿½”



A convict bound to Siberia



Bakï¿½”



Resht



The ancient royal city of Kasvin



The bazaar of Teheran



The Indo-European telegraph



Isfahan



Farewell to Isfahan



The ruins of Istakhr and fortress



Shiraz


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