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snowbenton's review
3.0
This book taught me that Henry M. Stanley was both the namesake of Stanley Falls and the originator of the phrase, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
This book also taught me that in 1968, the world was a very different place. On more than one occasion, Africans are referred to as savages, and often accused of being cannibals. I can't help but feel like this biography would never have been written in the modern day due to its unignorable racist undertones in both the author's writing and the passages written by Stanley himself.
It's an interesting little time capsule, to be sure.
This book also taught me that in 1968, the world was a very different place. On more than one occasion, Africans are referred to as savages, and often accused of being cannibals. I can't help but feel like this biography would never have been written in the modern day due to its unignorable racist undertones in both the author's writing and the passages written by Stanley himself.
It's an interesting little time capsule, to be sure.
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