CONTENTS

Preface

1.    John Rowlands – Bastard

2.    The Outcast

3.    The Windermere

4.    Meeting Mr Stanley

5.    Life with ‘Father’

6.    The Shopkeeper at Cypress Bend

7.    Dixie Greys and Yankee Blues

8.    Shiloh

9.    A Prisoner at Camp Douglas

10.    When Johnny Came Marching Home

11.    Lewis Noe and Trouble in Turkey

12.    Another Homecoming

13.    Hancock, Hickok and the Wronged Children of the Soil

14.    Mr Bennett and the New York Herald

15.    Theodorus and Magdala

16.    Romantic Interlude

17.    The Good Doctor

18.    ‘Find Livingstone!’

19.    ‘Forward, March!’

20.    ‘Mirambo is Coming!’

21.    Life with Livingstone

22.    ‘On Stanley, On!’

23.    Mission Accomplished

24.    ‘What Had I to Do with My Birth in Wales?’

25.    ‘The Most Gigantic Hoax ever Attempted on the Credulity of Mankind’

26.    New York Triumph and Disaster

27.    Coomassie

28.    A Living-stone

29.    Lady Alice

30.    Mtesa and Mirambo

31.    Leopold II

32.    Brazza

33.    Dolly Tennant

34.    Emin Pasha: Man of Mystery

35.    The Rear Column

36.    The Escape from Equatoria

37.    Marriage and Controversy

38.    The Member for North Lambeth

39.    Furze Hill and Happiness

40.    Loose Ends (1904–2002)

Acknowledgements

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