One dry season : in the footsteps of Mary Kingsley / Caroline Alexander
by Alexander, Caroline (1956- )
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0747500789
- ISBN 13
- 9780747500780
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About This Item
London : Bloomsbury, 1989. Book Club Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 290 pages; Physical desc. : 290p. : 1 map ; 24cm. Subjects: Alexander, Caroline - Travel - Gabon. Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900. Africa - Gabon - Description and travel. Summary: Nearly 100 years ago Mary Henrietta Kingsley made a journey to Africa about which she wrote on her return in ""Travels in West Africa"". In this blend of historical sleuthing and travel writing, Caroline Alexander describes the effect on her of reading Kingsley's book and her decision to make her own journey in Kingsley's footsteps, following her path as closely as possible. Staying at Catholic missions, travelling by ""pirogue"" through waterways and rapids, she encounters the ghosts of Trader Horn, Albert Schweitzer and Dr Robert Nasau. But contact with the past gives way to adventures which might have amazed Miss Kingsley.
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- Seller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 182790
- Title
- One dry season : in the footsteps of Mary Kingsley / Caroline Alexander
- Author
- Alexander, Caroline (1956- )
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0747500789
- ISBN 13
- 9780747500780
- Publisher
- London : Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
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