The American journalist’s harrowing 1871 quest to find England’s most celebrated explorer is also a story of newfound fascination with Africa Martin Dugard As America rebuilt following the Civil War, ...

The oft-quoted if little-understood phrase “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” would seem like a thin premise for an eight-episode series. Yet producer Mark Burnett dives in with his customary gusto, ...

Mixing political intrigue, adventure and his extensive research in Africa, author Martin Dugard tells the story behind the most famous encounter in exploration history --- the climactic meeting of Dr.

When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing ...

Your name is Henry Stanley. As a New York Herald journalist you’ve been sent to Africa to find the missing traveler and explorer, Dr Livingstone. After many months of searching you’ve managed to reach ...

THE MAN WHO PRESUMED (334 pp.)—Byron Farwell—Holt ($5). The notorious words “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” have perhaps aroused more merriment than any other phrase coined by man. But so far no one has ...

LONDON – He is one of history's most famous explorers, and his first-person account of a 19th-century massacre in Africa helped lead to the closure of one of the continent's most notorious slave ...

Adiet of porridge, butter and rice had fattened him. All seemed well. Tabora, Tanganyika (today’s Tanzania), June 23, 1871 —In the three months since Stanley had left the east coast of Africa to find ...