Volume 54, Number 19 · December 6, 2007
The Restless Conqueror
By David Gilmour
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
by Tim Jeal
Yale University Press, 570 pp., $38.00
Adult readers of history have to unlearn many of the things they remember from their schooldays. This is especially true of quotations of famous people because before the invention of tape recording virtually anything they said from the Old Testament onward was almost certain to be misquoted unless they wrote it down themselves.
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