The autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B. (Registro nro. 117835)
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | DT |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Stanley, Henry M. |
| Fuller form of name | (Henry Morton), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1841-1904 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Fourth edition |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-10-23 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
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| Summary, etc. | "The autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B." by Henry M. Stanley is an autobiography written in the early 20th century. It presents Stanley’s own account of his rise from a neglected, workhouse childhood to global renown as an African explorer and public figure, with the narrative completed and arranged from his journals and letters by his wife, Dorothy. Readers should expect a frank portrait of hardship, ambition, faith, and endurance leading into the major expeditions that reshaped European knowledge of Central Africa. The opening of this autobiography begins with a laudatory foreword and an editor’s preface explaining that Stanley left the work unfinished and that the narrative is supplemented from his diaries, letters, and lectures; it also notes the criticism he faced, his lack of personal enrichment from Africa, and his frustrations with British policy. Stanley’s own introduction declares his resolve to tell the unvarnished truth of his inner life. He then recounts his earliest memories in Denbigh, the death of his grandfather, and his removal to the St. Asaph Union Workhouse, where a brutal schoolmaster imposed constant violence. He describes the terror and discipline of that world, the death of a schoolmate, his intense turn to religion for comfort, passing recognition for drawing and study, and a brief, chilling encounter with his mother. A collective punishment over a damaged table leads him to refuse a flogging, fight back, and flee the institution with a friend. The section closes with the boys’ first days on the run—hiding in a lime-kiln, begging food from a kindly woman, and edging back toward Denbigh in fear and hope. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., Ltd., 1909 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Explorers -- Africa -- Biography |
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| Uncontrolled term | Africa, Central -- Biography |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Stanley, Dorothy, Lady, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1855-1926 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/b28987664/page/n11/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/b28987664/page/n11/mode/2up</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77113">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77113</a> |
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