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“tim jeal”

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  • Explorers of the Nile

    The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure

    by Tim Jeal ...
    A "highly enjoyable" account of six men, and one woman, who journeyed into uncharted and treacherous African terrain to find the source of the White Nile ( The Washington Post).Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth century more than the quest to discover the source of the White Nile. It was the planet's most elusive secret, the prize coveted above all others. Between 1856 and 1876, six ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Livingstone

    Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Tim Jeal ...
    "A superb biography, not to be missed either by armchair explorers or students of human nature…reveals the famed missionary and explorer as he really was."— Cleveland Plain DealerDavid Livingstone is revered as one of history's greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa, and the first to find Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo River. In this exciting new ... Read more

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  • Stanley

    The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

    by Tim Jeal ...
    National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: This revelatory biography of the famed adventurer is "commanding, definitive . . . an unalloyed triumph" ( The Washington Post Book World).A New York Times Notable Book of the YearHenry Morton Stanley, so the tale goes, was a cruel imperialist who connived with King Leopold II of Belgium in horrific crimes against the people of the Congo. He also ... Read more

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  • Stanley

    Africa's Greatest Explorer

    by Tim Jeal ...
    Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more extraordinary. Few people know of his dazzling trans-Africa journey, a heart-breaking epic of human endurance which solved virtually every one of the continent's remaining geographical puzzles. With new documentary evidence, Jeal explores ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Baden-Powell

    Founder of the Boy Scouts

    by Tim Jeal ...
    R.S.S. Baden-Powell, who founded the Boy Scouts movement in 1908, was a British military hero during the Boer War and an author, actor, artist, spy, sportsman, and female impersonator. In this absorbing and humane account of Baden-Powell’s extraordinary life, Tim Jeal reveals for the first time the complex figure behind the saintly public mask, showing him to be a man of both dazzling talents and ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • The Missionary's Wife

    by Tim Jeal ...
    In The Missionary's Wife (1996) - his return to historical fiction - Tim Jeal expertly evoked Africa in the 1890s: a continent in turmoil as a horde of prospecters, hunters and missionaries scramble after gold, ivory, and converts. Young Englishwoman Clara Musson, though, travels with a different purpose. Jilted in love, doubting her Christian faith, she hoped to find renewed meaning as the wife ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Deep Water

    by Tim Jeal ...
    It is 1941. Only child Leo invites schoolfriend Justin to stay the summer on the western tip of Cornwall. Addicted to adventure tales, one night they swim out to investigate a supposed 'spy ship' moored off the coast. The outcome is unnerving for the boys but momentous for Leo's mother Andrea, bringing her into contact with Lieutenant Commander Mike Harrington.'Tim Jeal is a great storyteller... ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • A Marriage of Convenience

    by Tim Jeal ...
    'A majestic Victorian tale... Wealthy lawyer Esmond, discarded illegitimate son of a peer, has pinched his way to the top of his profession, while his handsome, debt-ridden cavalry officer brother Clinton has inherited the title and the ancestral home. Beautiful actress Theresa, a widow, a fierce free spirit with a sinewy wit, is the woman both will love.' Kirkus Reviews'It is rare in this field ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • For Love or Money

    by Tim Jeal ...
    For Love or Money was Tim Jeal's first novel, accepted for publication in 1966 while he was still an undergraduate at Oxford. It is the story of temporary gentleman George, who lives as a kept man with Ruth, the older woman he stole from a wealthy peer, but whose relatively comfortable country life is threatened by his difficult relations with Ruth's two sons.'A first novel of genuine merit... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Carnforth's Creation

    by Tim Jeal ...
    Tim Jeal's sixth novel, first published in 1983, recreates the frenetic Britain of the 1960s and tells an enthralling tale of three individuals bound together by a risky experiment conducted amid the pop-cultural ferment of the era. Paul Carnforth is young, wealthy, titled, and alive to the opportunities of his times. 'You don't have to like pop to find it interesting', he tells his sceptical wife ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Cushing's Crusade

    by Tim Jeal ...
    Derek Cushing - thirtyish, balding, unassuming archivist/researcher into European expansion in East Africa - is also the son of Gilbert, father of Giles, and husband of Diana. On the last count, though, he has begun to fear that he is wearing cuckold's horns. His plan for addressing the crisis leads him to take his wife, son and ageing father to stay at the Cornish mansion of the smooth-talking ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Until the Colours Fade

    by Tim Jeal ...
    First published in 1976, Until the Colours Fade was Tim Jeal's fourth novel, set in 1852 in a Lancashire mill town transformed by the Industrial Revolution. Disenfranchised cotton workers are restless, while landed gentry make uneasy common cause with newly wealthy manufacturers. When painter Tom Strickland encounters the combustible Magnus Crawford, lately returned from military service abroad, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD