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Travels in West Africa
Supported by a family inheritance that gave her GBP500 a year, Mary Henrietta Kingsley traveled to Africa to complete the book her father had started. The subject was the culture …
Travels in West Africa
Mary H. Kingsley (1862-1900) was an English writer and explorer who, in 1893, set out to complete the work of her father in the study of sacrificial rites and fetishes. She arrived …
Hippo Banquet
'While engaged on this hunt I felt the earth quiver under my feet, and heard a soft big soughing sound, and looking round saw I had dropped in on a hippo banquet...'Told with verve …
Travels in West Africa
A remarkable account by a pioneering woman explorer who was described by Rudyard Kipling as 'the bravest woman of all my knowledge'.Until 1893, Mary Kingsley lived the typical life …
Congo and the Cameroons
Contemptuous of Europe's 'civilising mission' in Africa, Mary Kingsley's (1862-1900) extraordinary journeys through tropical west Africa are a remarkable record, both of a world …
West African Studies
Contains important eye-witness accounts by English traders who had many years experience in the Delta area.
Travels in West Africa (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Following the death of her parents in 1892, Mary Kingsley set out to finish her father's anthropological studies in West Africa. She went deep into the jungles where she fought off …
Reisen in Westafrika
Mary Kingsley war keine gewöhnliche Reisende. Als ein Krokodil versucht in ihr Einbaum zu klettern, zieht sie ihm einen Schlag mit dem Paddel über den Kopf. Während der Regenzeit …
West African Studies
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with …