Many people and organisations provided valuable information for this book. I am grateful to them all for their assistance, enthusiasm and efficiency; in particular I should like to thank Dafydd Hayes of the Clwyd Family History Society for information about Stanley’s early life in Wales; Flintshire Records Office, Hawarden, keepers of records for St Asaph’s Poor Law Union Workhouse; www.familysearch.org for information on Henry Hope Stanley’s parents; C.B. Pritchett Jr for information on the Camp Douglas civil war prison camp, near Chicago; the US National Park Service for material on the attack on Fort Fisher in January 1865; Jason D. Stratman of the Missouri Historical Society, St Louis, for material on Stanley’s time as a reporter on the American frontier for the Missouri Democrat; staff at the Southwest Review, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, for data on Stanley’s life in New Orleans and Cypress Bend; William Cox at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington DC, for information on Alice Pike Barney (Record Unit 7473); Clare Roberts at Christie’s (London) for background material on the auction of Stanley’s artefacts in September 2002 and Emma Strouts of Christie’s Images for finding several photographs used in this book; R.O. Tough of Tough’s Boatyard, Teddington and Hon. Sec. of the British Motor Yacht Club for information on boatbuilder James Messenger and construction of the Lady Alice; Peter Speller, Liz Brown at the National Monuments Records Office, London, for historical material about 2 Richmond Terrace, Whitehall; Jane Crompton and Rick Mitcham at the National Archives, Kew, for steering me in the direction of Dr John Kirk’s correspondence and reports from Zanzibar to the Foreign Office in London (Ref: FO 841373); Gary Symes for drawing the map; my editors at Sutton Publishing, Christopher Feeney and Clare Jackson; Sarah Strong of the Royal Geographical Society, London, for access to their collection of documents, images and artefacts on Stanley; Zoë Stansell of the manuscripts department at the British Library which houses Stanley’s journals on microfilm plus other documents relating to his life and work; Surrey History Centre, Woking, for archive material on Stanley’s estate at Furze Hill, Pirbright and funeral; the British Library’s Newspaper Library in London where I spent many happy hours reading Stanley’s historical dispatches to the New York Herald, Daily Telegraph and other publications reporting and commenting on his actions. My sincere thanks to each and every one.