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Travels in West Africa Paperback - 2002
by Mary Kingsley
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- Title Travels in West Africa
- Author Mary Kingsley
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
- Date 2002
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0792266382I4N10
- ISBN 9780792266389 / 0792266382
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.98 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.49 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Africa, West - Description and travel, Kingsley, Mary Henrietta - Travel - Africa,
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002025524
- Dewey Decimal Code 916.604
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Summary
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.