Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco, and Cameroons by Mary Henrietta Kingsley

Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco, and Cameroons

Mary Henrietta Kingsley

741 pages first pub 1897 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous reflective slow-paced

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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 set out alone to West Africa to pursue her anthropological interes...

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