Male : Explorer and author & amateur artist. Born John Rowlands, he was orphaned and brought up in the St Asaph Workhouse 1847-56. Adopted by a New orleans cottonbroker, Henry Stanley. Served in the Confederate army 1861-2. became a roving journalist in Asia Minor, Abyssinia & Africa. Married the artist and illustrator Dorothy Tennant in 1890

Nationality : Welsh Place of Birth : Denbigh

Date of Birth : 1841 Date of Death : 1904 Age : 63

Pseudonyms : Born John Rowlands

Other Work : News correspondent, 1895-1900 MP for Lambeth

1872-1880
How I Found Livingstone : Travels, Adventures & Discoveries in Central Africa
(1872 Sampson Low) - 2 vols (1889 Scribner)
My Kalulu (1873 London)
Coomassie and Magdala : The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa (1874 London) (1874 Harper)
(1891 London. 2nd Ed)
Through the Dark Continent (1878 London) (1878 Harper) - 2 vols (1899 Newnes - 2 vols)

1881-1890
The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State : A Story of Work & Exploration
(1885 Sampson Low) - 2 vols
(1885 Harper) - 2 vols
Offered in 1998 for £220
The Story of Emin's rescue as Told in Stanley's Letters (1890 NY)
In Darkest Africa, or the Quest, Rescue & Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria
(1890 Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington) - 2 vols. 250 signed
Unsigned editions offered for £250 in 1998
(1890 Scribner NY) - 2 vols. 250 signed
(1890 Scribner, NY) - 6 vols. Subscriber Edition

After 1891
My Dark Companions and their Strange Stories (1893 London) - Walter Buckley
Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa (1893 Harper NY)
My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia (1895 Sampson Low) (1895 NY) - 2 vols
Through South Africa (1898 Sampson Low) (1898 NY)
The Autobiography of H M Stanley (Ed Dorothy Stanley) (1909 Sampson Low)
+ 250 signed by Dorothy Stanley
The Unpublished Letters of H M Stanley (Ed Albert Maurice) (1957 London)
The Exploration Diaries of H M Stanley (Ed Richard Stanley & Alan Neame) (1961 London)
(Ed) Norman R Bennett : Stanley's Despatches to the New York Herald 1871-77 (1970 Boston)

READING
1872-1900
Cadwalader Rowlands : Henry M Stanley - the Story of His Life from Birth to His
Discovery of Livingstone (1872 London)
Thomas Stevens : Scouting for Stanley in East Africa (1890 NY)
J Buel : Heroes of the Dark Continent, and How Stanley Found Emin Pasha (1890 NY)
A J Wauters : Stanley's Emin Pasha Expedition (1890 London)
Henry W Little : Henry M Stanley - His Life, Travels & Explorations (1890 Chapman & Hall)
John Rose Troup : With Stanley's Rear Column (1890 London)
E Marston : How Stanley Wrote "In Darkest Africa" (1890 Sampson Low)
Herbert Ward : My Life with Stanley's Rear Guard (1891 London)

1901-1950
Jacob Wasserman : H M Stanley, Explorer (1932 London)
A J A Symons : H M Stanley (1933 Duckworth) (1950 Falcon Press)
Jakob Wasserman : Bula Matari - Stanley, Conqueror of a Continent (1933 NY)
Frank Hird : H M Stanley - the Authoritative Life (1935 London)
Pierre Daye : Stanley (1936 Paris)
William Hoffman : With Stanley in Africa (1938 London)

1951 Onwards
Ian Anstruther : I Presume - Stanley's Triumph and Disaster (1956 London)
Byron Farwell : The Man Who Presumed - A Biography of H M Stanley (1957 London)
Richard Hall : Stanley - An Adventurer Explored (1974 London)
John Blashford-Snell : In the Steps of Stanley (1975 Hutchinson)
(Ed) Quest : The Story of Stanley and Livingstone Told in Their Own Words (1978 London)
John Bierman : Dark Safari - The Life Behind the Legend of Henry Morton Stanley
(1990 Knopf) (1991 Hodder & Stoughton)