RSS Baden-Powell, who founded the Boy Scouts movement, was a British military hero during the Boer War and an author, actor, artist, spy, and sportsman. This work... Læs mere
Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile.
Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more... Læs mere
An extensively revised edition of Tim Jeal's classic biography published to mark the bicentenary of the great explorer