Travels In West Africa
by Mary, Kingsley
Supported by a family inheritance that gave her £500 a year, Mary Henrietta Kingsley traveled to Africa to complete the book her father had started. The subject was the culture of Africa and Kingsley stayed with local people while she learned to survive in the African jungles, studied cannibal tribes, discovered new species of fish, and climbed Mount Cameroon by a route untouched by any European before her. Kingsley's ideas greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and the African people and her 1897 account, Travels in West Africa, quickly became a best-seller.
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Travels In West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroon
by Mary Kingsley
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TRAVELS IN WEST AFRICA
by Kingsley, Mary
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Travels in West Africa
by Kingsley, Mary; Edited By Elspeth Huxley; Introduced By Sara Wheeler
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Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons (Virago Trave lers)
by Mary Kingsley; Elizabeth Claridge (intro)
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London: Virago Press, 1982. Trade Paperback. Fifth Edition. Very Good. Pages tanned but unmarked. Spine creased and lightly curved. Reading wear to covers. Corners sharp. Not from a library. xxvi + 741 pages. Originally published: London : Macmillan, 1897. With new introduction.
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Travels in West Africa
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London: Dent / Everymans Library , 1987 Book. Near Fine. Pbk. 1st Pbk Edition. Travels in West Africa (Everyman Classics Series)No European woman had ventured where Kingsley would venture, and no man either. In defiance of Victorian notions about women's roles, she journeyed through West Africa, climbed mountains, experienced harrowing adventures, dwelling among cannibals, and lived to write one… Read more about this item Item Price
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Travels in West Africa (National Geographic Adventure Classics)
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TRAVELS IN WEST AFRICA.
by Kingsley, Mary.
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National Geographic:, 2002. 365 pages, with a new Introduction by Anthony Brandt. "In 1893, defying convention of Victorian womanhood, Mary Kingsley set off alone for West Africa to collect botanical specimens. Unaccompanied except for native guides, she plunged boldly into forbidding jungle, often the first European- and almost always the first white woman- ever to arrive." FINE SOFTCOVER..… Read more about this item Item Price
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Washington, D. C.: National Geographic, 2002. Softcover, [xvi], 365 pages. Very Good+ condition. Size 9"x5.875". "The classic travel adventures of the late-nineteenth-century woman, who defied the conventions of Victorian England to complete her father's research in western and equatorial Africa, during which she forged warm relationships with the natives and survived surprising challenges." Book has light shelfwear, and small ding… Read more about this item Item Price
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TRAVELS IN WEST AFRICA
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