for the newspaper of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and hunting big game. He found Stanley's camp in a race with the rival New York Herald and wrote his book, Scouting for Stanley in East Africa It concluded: By the end of February 1890, I was again in New York. I had been gone fourteen months. I had not 'found Stanley,' as Stanley had found Livingstone in 1871; the circumstances were altogether different. I had, however, gratified a pardonable journalistic ambition in being the first correspondent to reach him and to give him news of the world, after his long period of African darkness. That I had done this under most trying conditions, Mr. Stanley fully appreciated; and warmly reciprocated by showing me every courtesy in his power, on the march to the coast, in Zanzibar, and in Egypt. Stevens then reported from Russia, sailed the rivers of Europe, and investigated miracles claimed by Indian ascetics. His conclusions that "the stories of travelers, from Marco Polo to the latest witness of Indian miracles...are quite true" were greeted with scepticism and his career faltered. A planned tour of London with his Indian photographs fell through. Return to England Stevens returned to England around 1895 and married Frances Barnes (née Nation), widowed mother of the actresses Irene and Violet Vanbrugh. He became manager of the Garrick Theatre in London. He died in London of cancer of the bladder and was buried at St Marylebone Cemetery in East Finchley, London. His publications also include: Around The World on a Bicycle, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1887. Wild Pea-Fowls in British India, St Nicholas Magazine September 1888 Some Asiatic Dogs, St Nicholas Magazine February 1890 African River and Lake Systems, Scribner's Magazine, September 1890 Through Russia on a Mustang, Cassell Publishing Company, New York, 1891 Bicycling, Lippincott's Magazine (V49) May, 1892 Across Europe with a Petroleum Launch (From the German Ocean to the Black Sea), Outing Magazine April 1892-September 1892 Babes of the Empire, London : William Heinemann, 1902. See also Frank Lenz (cyclist) References Genini, Ronald. "California's Circumcyclist Extraordinaire," 'The Californians, 5, No. 3 (May/June 1987), 22–27. Cited in Journal of Sport History, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Spring, 1988). External links "Thomas Stevens – 1884" – The Wheelmen "Around the World on a Bicycle. From San Francisco to Teheran" – Via Incognita "ROUND THE WORLD ON A BICYCLE" – Harper's brief, 30 August