Travels In West Africa
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Author | : Mary H. Kingsley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 842 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
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As a dutiful Victorian daughter, the author was thirty before being freed (by her parents' deaths) to do as she chose. She went to West Africa in 1893 and again in 1895, to investigate the beliefs and customs of the inland tribes and also to collect zoological specimens. She was appalled by the 'thin veneer of rubbishy white culture' imposed by British officials and was not afraid to say so.
Author | : John Duncan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Kingsley Mary |
Publisher | : BoD - Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 2023-07-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Mary Kingsley went alone, in 1893, to remote areas in West Africa crawling with cannibal tribes. Some areas had never been visited by a white man, much less a white woman. She's at her best when writing in travel journal style. The rest of the book that is not travel narrative is her thoughts and research on Africa and its "fetishes", which is what seems to be her word for the religious and traditional customs of the natives.
Author | : Mary Henrietta Kingsley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
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Author | : Mary Henrietta Kingsley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
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Author | : Mary Henrietta Kingsley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
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Author | : Mary Henrietta Kingsley |
Publisher | : Knight Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : M. Kingsley |
Publisher | : Orbit Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1999-12-31 |
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ISBN | : 9781853813719 |
Author | : H. Mary Kingsley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2007-06-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781435306714 |
Author | : Mary H Kingsley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2020-02-06 |
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In 1893, defying every 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 jungles, often the first European--and almost always the first white woman--ever to arrive. Undaunted by tales of ferocious cannibals, she made friends with the tribes she met and collected priceless samples of flora and fauna. Along the way she fought off crocodiles with a paddle and hit a leopard over the head with a pot. When she fell into a trap lined with sharp sticks, she was saved by her voluminous crinolines--for she always dressed like a lady. Travels in West Africa is a book as vivid and unforgettable as the extraordinary woman herself. Setting forth how the voyager departs from England in a stout vessel and in good company, and reaches in due course the Island of the Grand Canary, and then the Port of Sierra Leone: to which is added some account of this latter place and the comeliness of its women. Wherein also some description of Cape Coast and Accra is given, to which are added divers observations on supplies to be obtained there.