The Real Henry Morton Stanley : The Dark Truth of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

Henry Morton Stanley may be best remembered as an explorer, but all his African expeditions began as a newspaper journalist in search of a scoop.The story of how he found Dr Livingstone brought him worldwide fame, but his attempt to repeat the achievement fifteen years later ended in disaster.Despite this, by using his supreme skills in reputation management, he ensured that the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition was hailed as a tremendous success. On this, his last expedition, he claimed he was coming to the rescue of an amateur scientist known to history as Emin Pasha who, despite his Ottoman name and title, was a German Jew who converted to Islam before losing himself in the unmapped interior of Africa.It was never obvious why England should have been concerned about his fate, but when he became stranded by local wars, Stanley and others saw an opportunity to advance their own special interests in the region. The expedition was ill-conceived, badly organised and desperately under resource