Travels in West Africa (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons

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 crocodile and leopard alike.  Published in 1897, Travels in West Africa is an account of her second journey to the continent, written with reserves of good humor and a profound sympathy for her subject. 

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Travels in West Africa (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons

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 crocodile and leopard alike.  Published in 1897, Travels in West Africa is an account of her second journey to the continent, written with reserves of good humor and a profound sympathy for her subject. 

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Travels in West Africa (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons

Travels in West Africa (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons

by Mary Kingsley
Travels in West Africa (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons

Travels in West Africa (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons

by Mary Kingsley

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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 crocodile and leopard alike.  Published in 1897, Travels in West Africa is an account of her second journey to the continent, written with reserves of good humor and a profound sympathy for her subject. 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781411438330
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Publication date: 02/08/2011
Series: Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 390
File size: 1 MB
Age Range: 3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862-1900) was an English writer and trailblazing woman explorer whose reports of her experiences in Africa, and her championing of the dignity of indigenous Africans and their customs, shed a new light on the continent for European audiences.  She died in South Africa during the Second Boer War, serving as a nurse.

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