Travels in West Africa
Author | : Mary Henrietta Kingsley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mary Henrietta Kingsley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Henrietta Kingsley |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 2023-03-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368346857 |
Reproduction of the original.
Author | : Mary H. Kingsley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
ISBN | : |
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 | : MARY H. KINGSLEY |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2018-01-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789387513792 |
This book has been deemed as a classic and has stood the test of time. The book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations.
Author | : Mary Henrietta Kingsley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Henrietta Kingsley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Africa, Central |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Kingsley |
Publisher | : The Floating Press |
Total Pages | : 794 |
Release | : 2009-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1775411273 |
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.
Author | : Kingsley |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2017-04-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781545077115 |
Travels in West Africa: Congo Fran�ais, Corisco and CameroonsBy Kingsley
Author | : Mary Henrietta Kingsley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
ISBN | : |
Mary Henrietta Kingsley was an English ethnographic and scientific writer and explorer whose travels throughout West Africa and resulting work helped shape European perceptions of African cultures and British imperialism. After a preliminary visit to the Canary Islands, Kingsley decided to travel to the west coast of Africa. The only non-African women who regularly embarked on (often dangerous) journeys to Africa were usually the wives of missionaries, government officials, or explorers. Exploration and adventure were not seen as fitting roles for women in the Victorian era. Yet, when Mary Kingsley's invalid parents died within six weeks of each other, she followed in her explorer father's footsteps and traveled to Africa against her society's every convention. Here is her lively and witty account of that journey, an immediate bestseller when it first came out in 1897 and every bit as gripping today.
Author | : Mary Henrietta Kingsley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Africa, West |
ISBN | : 9781620111642 |