Tim Jeal is also the biographer of Henry Morton Stanley (National Book Critics' Circle Award in Biography and Sunday Times Biography of the Year 2007), and Robert Baden-Powell, which (like Livingstone) was chosen as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times and the Washington Post. In 2011 his Explorers of the Nile was a New York Times Editor's Choice and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.
“Brilliant.”—New York Times Book Review
*New York Times Book Review*
“Explorers of the Nile is a brilliant, scholarly and at times
almost unreadably vivid account of the two decades in the middle of
the 19th century when the search for the Nile’s source in central
Africa was at its height.”—Ben Macintyre, New York Times Book
Review
*New York Times Book Review*
"Elegantly written and skillfully crafted...The greatest strengths
of this highly enjoyable and readable book are Jeal’s passion for
his subject and his mastery of personalities as complex as the
geography they battled to understand."—Diane Preston, Washington
Post
*Washington Post*
"Superb narrative . . . Jeal’s judicious account is a must-read for
anyone hoping to understand the internal dynamics of modern
state-building in central Africa."—Brian Odom, Booklist
*Booklist*
"Masterly...One of the fascinations of Jeal's book and his account
of this astonishing period of exploration is that it makes great
efforts to strip away the accumulated myths and through this
process we can begin to see these 'heroic' figures plain, to
imagine them as they were to their contemporaries."—William Boyd,
TLS
*TLS*
"Tim Jeal's masterly book ... can safely supplant Alan Moorehead's
1960 classic, The White Nile... Jeal also knows how to tell a
fabulous story, and he lets old-fashioned epic adventure sit at the
heart of his fine book." —James McConnachie, Sunday Times
*Sunday Times*
"[A] wonderfully entertaining and authoritative account of the
search for the Nile and its consequences."—John Preston, Sunday
Telegraph
*Sunday Telegraph*
Runner-up for the 2011-2012 Los Angeles Book Festival in the
General Non-fiction category
*Los Angeles Book Festival*
"There are few greater stories than the race to the Nile's
source... Tim Jeal gives a fine reprise, bringing together in one
well-paced narrative the interlocking Nilotic adventures ... Its
place [is] alongside the classics of Victorian explorer
history."—Tim Butcher, Daily Telegraph
*Daily Telegraph*
"If there is one book about the search for the sources of the Nile
to read and keep on the shelf, this is it."—Tim Severin, Irish
Examiner
*Irish Examiner*
"Epic in proportion...An absorbing adventure and a thought
provoking morality tale."—Peter Burton, Daily Express
*Daily Express*
"Tim Jeal's gripping book pulls the whole astonishing story
together. . . . It's as intricate and unexpected as the source of
the river itself. . . All the main players were. . . examples of
grit, resourcefulness and courage on a heroic scale. . . . How
intimately Tim Jeal knows them all, and brings them back to life
for us."—Tom Stacey, The Spectator
*The Spectator*
"Masterly...The complicated narrative is well told with exemplary
scholarship and great and compelling lucidity...One of the
fascinations of Jeal's book and his account of this astonishing
period of exploration is that it makes great efforts to strip away
the accumulated myths and through this process we can begin to see
these 'heroic' figures plain, to imagine them as they were to their
contemporaries."—William Boyd, TLS
*TLS*
Read Tim Jeal's essay on the perils of exploration on the Yale
Press Log
*http://blog.yupnet.org/2011/10/20/eminent-biography-tim-jeal-on-explorers-of-the-nile/*
"Jeal's lengthy, comprehensive, and revisionist book is exciting
reading both about the adventures in the field and about the clash
of personalities."—Rob Hardy, The Dispatch
*The Dispatch*
"Tim Jeal's wonderful book is filled with anecdotes and brilliant
cameos, which keep the narrative fresh and sparklingly alive. His
treatment of these legendary figures is authoritative and
compassionate."—Alexander Maitland, Literary Review
*Literary Review*
"[A] wonderfully entertaining and authoritative account of the
search for the Nile and its consequences...There is something
intensely moving about the the way in which Jeal has sought to
restore Speke's reputation."—John Preston, Sunday Telegraph
*Sunday Telegraph*
"Splendid."—Bernard Porter, Guardian
*Guardian*
Won Honorable Mention in the 2012 New York Book Festival History
category, sponsored by the New York Book Festival
*New York Book Festival*
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