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Henry Morton Stanley : In Darkest Africa: Or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governer of Equatoria.

'Thank goodness I have nearly finished [Stanley's] ''Darkest Africa'' and it must be the most tiresome book in the world, so confused and diffuse, with immense long conversations verbatim that end in nothing.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

Henry Morton Stanley : unknown

'"Been across before?" I asked him, condescendingly.
"Once or twice," he answered with a grin. "Have you?"
"A few times," I admitted largely; and I proceeded to entertain him with an account of various remarkable journeys I had made across the Irish Sea, the descriptive matter of these accounts being looted from Lever and other sources. When he apparently swallowed it all with nothing more than a faint grin, I grew more adventurous. I recounted a voyage I had made down the Portuguese coast (Peter Simple) and the Mediterranean (Midshipman Easy) ... I filled in the background of my Australian adventures with local colour from Robbery Under Arms and penetrated Darkest Africa with Stanley.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Desmond Malone      Print: Book

Henry Morton Stanley : Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley

'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.^y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [George Eliot]
A Mill on the Floss – [George Eliot]
Men, Women & Guns – Sapper
A Student in Arms – Hankey.
Great Texts of the Bible – Psalms
Battles of the 19^th Cent.^y – Ency. Brit
The Real Kaiser –
In a German Prince's house
Life of Stanley – Autobiography
Political Hist.^y of the World – Innes.
The Practice of Xt.^s Presence – Fullerton
Malarial Work in Macedonia. – Willoughby & Cassidy
Bible Prophecies of the present war.
Where are we?
The lost tribes.
The Marne & after
Nelson's Hist.^y of the War. XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX.
A strange story. 1 & 2.
The eyes of His glory – Harrington Lees
The Practice of Christ's Presence
I.R.M. Jan — Dec 1917. Jan — July 1918.
Advent Testimony.
The King's Highway
The Vision Splendid
All's Well.
Bunyan's Characters. White. Vols. 1 & 3
Lichnowsky.
Prophetic Outlook — Cachemaile
Rhymes of a Red Cross man
Kipling – 20 poems
In Christ – Gordon
Scenes of Clerical Life. George Eliot
Sense & Sensibility – J. Austen.
Nicholas Nickleby – Dickens.
Dombey & Son      "
Silvia's Lovers. M^rs Gaskell.
Emma. Jane Austen
Agnes Grey. Ann Bronte
Thirsting for the Springs. Jowett
Germany at Bay. Major MacFall
Sir Nigel Loring. Conan Doyle'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Ruskin Cook      Print: Book

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