Travels in West Africa by Anthony Brandt, Mary Henrietta Kingsley

Travels in West Africa

Anthony Brandt, Mary Henrietta Kingsley

384 pages first pub 1897 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous reflective slow-paced
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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...

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