My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia, Volumes I & II

Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841 – 1904) was a journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Upon finding Livingstone, Stanley reportedly asked, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Stanley is also known for his search for the source of the Nile, his work in and development of the Congo Basin region in association with King Leopold II of the Belgians and for commanding the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. In 1859, at age 18, Rowlands emigrated from England to the United States in search of a new life. He details his experiences in the United States in "My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia, Volumes I & II" Mr. Stanley's sketches of men and scenery are lively and vivid. Particularly striking is the account of the great "pow-wow" between the chiefs of the Crow Indians and Peace Commissioner. The second volume contains detached papers of interest concerning Egypt, the Suez Canal, the Nile, Jerusalem, and Persia. The letters in the first volume were written chiefly from our own Indian country in the years immediately following the Civil War, when buffalo and antelope still roamed the plains, when transcontinental railways were only feeling their way toward the Pacific, and when the redskins fought locomotives, stage-coaches, and settlers with every means in their power. Vivid pictures these letters give of those days —-so near when measured by the clock, so far away when measured by the strides of civilization. Full they are of local color, of the mutterings of the great national storm then passing off, of the growth of the Territories and the cruelty of the savages, and the rapacity of the white men and the life of the army. The letters in the second volume are in five bunches; the first relates to the construction and opening of the Suez Canal; the second to a trip up the Nile in the happy days before Cook’s tourists abounded; the third to a visit to Jerusalem; the fourth to the countries and cities around the Caspian; and the fifth to a ride through Persia. This book originally published in 1895 has been reformatted for the Kindle may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.