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African exploits : the diaries of William Stairs, 1887-1892 /
Born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Stairs (1863-1892) attended the Royal Military College in Kingston before being commissioned in the British army. Wearied of peacetime soldiering, he volunteered in 1887 to participate in Sir Henry M. Stanley's final trans-African expedition to rescue Em...
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McGill-Queen's University Press,
©1998.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a African exploits : |b the diaries of William Stairs, 1887-1892 / |c [edited by] Roy MacLaren. |
| 260 | |a Montreal [Que.] : |b McGill-Queen's University Press, |c ©1998. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (vi, 423 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : |b illustrations, maps, portraits | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 20 January � 18 March 1887 -- 2 19 March � 30 April 1887 -- 3 1 May � 7 June 1887 -- 4 12 June � 5 September 1887 -- 5 7 September � 17 October 1887 -- 6 18 October � 13 December 1887 -- 7 14 December 1887 � 4 January 1888 -- 8 8 January � 25 April 1888 -- 9 26 April � 6 June 1888 -- 10 8 June � 15 December 1888 -- 11 21 December 1888 � 8 January 1889 -- 12 9 January � 28 February 1889 -- 13 1 March � 4 May 1889 -- 14 7 May � 18 August 1889 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 15 19 August 1889 � July 189116 Introduction to the Katanga Diaries -- 17 18 May � 3 July 1891 -- 18 4 July � 31 August 1891 -- 19 1 September � 15 October 1891 -- 20 17 October � 13 November 1891 -- 21 14 November � 1 December 1891 -- 22 8 December 1891 � 2 January 1892 -- 23 1 April � 3 June 1892 -- 24 Epilogue -- Appendix 1 Stairs's Report on His Command at Fort Bodo -- Appendix 2 Stairs's Report on His Attempted Ascent of the Ruwenzori Mountains -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Kl -- m -- n -- o -- p -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w -- y -- z | |
| 520 | |a Born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Stairs (1863-1892) attended the Royal Military College in Kingston before being commissioned in the British army. Wearied of peacetime soldiering, he volunteered in 1887 to participate in Sir Henry M. Stanley's final trans-African expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, the last of "Chinese" Gordon's lieutenants in the Sudan. The expedition emerged almost three years later in Zanzibar, a reluctant Pasha in tow, having left a trail of havoc and suffering behind it. Stairs promptly volunteered for a second expedition in Africa to secure Katanga for King Leopold II of the Belgians as part of the controversial Congo Free State. Stairs was a cruel leader, condoning decapitation and mutilation to attain colonial ends. The expedition succeeded, but at the price of suffering, destruction, and his own life: Stairs died of malaria at the end of the expedition at the age of twenty-eight. Few diaries of the period convey better than Stairs's the nature and course of imperialist expeditions in Africa in the nineteenth century and the psychological and moral corruption caused by absolute power. Stairs's diaries of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition present a candid, personal account of the long and arduous venture, including a very unflattering assessment of Stanley, whom Stairs described as cruel, secretive, and selfish. The Katanga diaries, written as an official company account of the expedition, were intended partly to provide information useful to those intent upon exploiting the African hinterland. African Exploits is the most complete published collection of Stairs's diaries, with a new translation of the Katanga diaries, which no longer exist in the original English. Roy MacLaren's introduction and conclusion set Stairs's adventures in the colonial context of the era and analyse the psychological effects of his experiences. | ||
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