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Part One: Henry Morton Stanley: The Explorer Who Shot His Way Through Africa

Behind the Bastards

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Stanley - The Most Racist Person Possible - Gill's Biography

william morton stanley had been living as an american from within a decade at this point but the opinions of english high society still very much mattered to him. His glowing account of how the british won the war's only significant battle was the first to reach the world in a grand stroke of luck the transmediterranean telegraph cable broke just after stanley's stories were sent off. In part two, seren gill takes you through Stanley's life before and during his time working for The New York Herald which is now one of the most profitable publications in the world. Seren: "It sucks and unfairly rewards people who are already rich and

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