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Travels In West Africa Mary Kingsley

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Travels In West Africa Mary Kingsley
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 14.44 MB
Author: Mary Kingsley
Language: English
Year: 2015

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Travels In West Africa Mary Kingsley by Mary Kingsley instant download after payment.

A remarkable account by a pioneering woman explorer who was described by Rudyard Kipling as 'the bravest woman of all my knowledge'.

Until 1893, Mary Kingsley lived the typical life of a single Victorian woman, tending to sick relatives and keeping house for her brother. However, on the death of her parents, she undertook an extraordinary decision: with no prior knowledge of the region, she set out alone to West Africa to pursue her anthropological interests and collect botanical specimens. Her subsequent book, published in 1897, is a testament to understatement and humour - few explorers made less of the hardships and dangers experienced while travelling (including unaccompanied treks through dangerous jungles and encounters with deadly animals). Travels in West Africa would challenge (as well as reinforce) contemporary Victorian prejudices about Africa, and also made invaluable contributions to the fields of botany and anthropology....

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