Travels in Fiction: Baker, Stanley, Cameron and the Adventure of African Exploration

Abstract

Press, 2004) <www.oxforddnb.com> [accessed 16 Jan 2017]. 3. In addition to his geographical achievements, Stanley was involved in imperial expansion, working directly for King Leopold of Belgium to establish stations in the Congo and contributing to the 'opening' of Buganda. See Newman, Imperial Footprints, pp. 337-38. Baker is best known for exploring the 'Luta N'Zigé', which he renamed the Albert N'yanza, and for later acting as governor-general of the equatorial Nile basin on the authority of the Ottoman Empire. Earlier in his career, he developed a 'colonization scheme' in Ceylon and acquired a reputation as a big game hunter.

A romance of slavery: exploration, encounters and cartographies of violence in H. M. Stanley’sMy Kalulu

“…13 For discussion of Mirambo, see Rockel (2012, 223-226). 14 The following argument extends my preliminary discussion of Stanley's engagement with east African caravan culture in Livingstone (2017). 15 The logistics of European expeditions are discussed in Kennedy (2013, 129-158).…”

“…Yet even as field notes, journals and travelogues have received due consideration, another literary product of expeditions has been largely ignored. As I have argued elsewhere, it is little known that during the heyday of African travel a number of celebrated explorers of Africa tried their hand at writing fiction (Livingstone 2017). Of these, the most prominent was Henry Morton Stanley whose romance My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave (1873) will occupy this article.…”

“…Nevertheless, the surprising regard that he shows for a highly organised Arab-African travel culture reminds us that this novel and the fiction of other explorers should be read as documents of cultural encounter. 18 They must, as I argue elsewhere, be understood as forms of travel writing, emerging from the material circumstances of the field (Livingstone 2017). African exploration generated wide varieties of travel record, including notebooks, journals, and correspondence alongside the formal expeditionary narrative.…”