Word: bagamoyo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Glenn, on leave from the board chairmanship of Royal Crown International, retraced Henry Stanley's 1,000-mile trek, from Bagamoyo to Ujiji, in what is now Tanzania. The New York Herald headline hunter took 71 months to reach Missionary David Livingstone in 1871. Glenn made it in 51 weeks by foot, rail and Land-Rover. In the process, his documentary flashed back and forth artfully but not artily between Stanley's diary and line drawings of the day and troubled contemporary Tanzania. Glenn's words were not quite up to his pictures, though. By contrast with...
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