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TRAVELS IN WEST AFRICA.
by Kingsley, Mary
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0792266382
- ISBN 13
- 9780792266389
- Seller
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About This Item
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.. Soft Cover. Fine. Illus. by Maria L. Kirk. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- PASCALE'S BOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 032646
- Title
- TRAVELS IN WEST AFRICA.
- Author
- Kingsley, Mary
- Illustrator
- Maria L. Kirk
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0792266382
- ISBN 13
- 9780792266389
- Publisher
- National Geographic:
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.c., U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- women Travelers, Mary Kingsley, ISBN: 0-7922-6638-2, West African Explorers
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