My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia 2 Volume Set - Henry Morton Stanley

My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia 2 Volume Set

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784 Seiten
2011
Cambridge University Press
978-1-108-03299-5 (ISBN)
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Published in 1895, these two volumes contain Henry Morton Stanley's early journalistic writings during his travels in America and Asia from 1867 to 1869. Stanley is best-known for his subsequent African explorations, but these early works reveal much about his character and future ambitions.
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. Stanley's reports in Volume 1 cover General Hancock's military expedition against the Cheyenne and the Sioux peoples in Kansas and Nebraska in 1866–7. In Volume 2 Stanley recounts his travels on an enterprise to report on the inauguration of the Suez Canal, to write a guide to the Nile and to give an account of Sir Charles Warren's explorations underneath Jerusalem, before proceeding through Persia to India.

Volume 1: Introduction; Publisher's note; Fort Harker; From Fort Harker to Fort Zarah; From Fort Zarah to Fort Larned; Appearance of Fort Larned; Indian incendiarism and murder; A paradise of nature; Hancock's reception at Fort Dodge; General topics; The last pow-wow; From Fort Larned to Fort Harker via Fort Hayes; General subjects continued; A trip up the Missouri; The Union Pacific Railroad; A fugitive from the Indian camp; Stringent martial law at Sedgwick; New Julesburg; From St. Louis to Fort Harker; Pacific Road; Particulars of the Plum Creek Massacre; Arrival at Julesburg; From Denver to Golden City; Notorious Julesburg; The commissioners at the Council Ground; General Sherman's speech; The members of the Peace Commission, and the Press Gang; The change at Larned; Another council; An amphitheatre in a grove; Arrival of Osage chiefs; Arrival of hostile chiefs; Interesting proceedings; Index. Volume 2: 1. The tongue of the Egyptian Sea; 2. The Egyptian Napoleon; 3. The maritime capital of the Suez Isthmus; 4. The greatest drama in Egyptian history; 5. Ismailia; 6. A modern guide for travel on the great river, and grand fluvial contrasts; 7. Denderah, or Tentyra, to Thebes; 8. From Thebes to Philae; 9. Exploration of underground Jerusalem; 10. Jealousies excited by the explorations below Jerusalem; 11. Constantinople to Sinope; 12. Tiflis; 13. Tiflis to Bakû; 14. A convict bound to Siberia; 15. Bakû; 16. Resht; 17. The ancient royal city of Kasvin; 18. The bazaar of Teheran; 19. The Indo-European telegraph; 20. Isfahan; 21. Farewell to Isfahan; 22. The ruins of Istakhr and fortress; 23. Shiraz; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 22.9.2011
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 1000 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Naher Osten
Reisen Reiseberichte Nord- / Mittelamerika
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
ISBN-10 1-108-03299-0 / 1108032990
ISBN-13 978-1-108-03299-5 / 9781108032995
Zustand Neuware
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