Jeal

Jeal is describing private education of 50 years ago, not today, though his bruised bottom should get me a few hits from the dirty mac brigade.

April 2005 2005

Jeal is describing private education of 50 years ago, not today, though his bruised bottom should get me a few hits from the dirty mac brigade.

Archive 2005-04-01 2005

Jeal is describing private education of 50 years ago, not today, though his bruised bottom should get me a few hits from the dirty mac brigade.

Reading Lord of the Flies today 2005

Speke was, as it turned out, correct about Nyanza, and Mr. Jeal is his ardent supporter.

To the Source Judith Flanders 2011

Alan Moorehead's seminal account of the hunt for the river's source, "The White Nile," was published half a century ago, and, as Mr. Jeal notes, dozens of biographies, including nine of Burton, six of Stanley, three of the Bakers and four of Livingstone have since appeared.

To the Source Judith Flanders 2011

Instead, Mr. Jeal identifies personal reasons—a desire to escape routine, existential wanderlust, personal reinvention—and more idealistic ones: to benefit humanity, particularly by eradicating the slave trade; to bring trade to Africa; to extend the empire.

To the Source Judith Flanders 2011

Yet reports of these grim ends seemed, if anything, a spur to other explorers, and Mr. Jeal examines the reasons, both spoken and unspoken, behind this lust for discovery.

To the Source Judith Flanders 2011

In 1864, back in England, Speke died in a hunting accident—Mr. Jeal firmly repudiates Burton's opportunistic suggestion of suicide—leaving the debate to Burton and his ready pen.

To the Source Judith Flanders 2011

Mr. Jeal makes an almost unanswerable case, but his stridency makes the reader wary.

To the Source Judith Flanders 2011

Mr. Jeal is similarly generous to the demons that drove Henry Morton Stanley and puts his search for, and hero-worship of, Livingstone in context, making his famous staged meeting, "resplendent in pith helmet and white flannels," mounted on a stallion, with the Stars and Stripes flying, touching and admirable rather than vainglorious.

To the Source Judith Flanders 2011