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Author : Mary H. Kingsley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
Travels In West Africa written by Mary H. Kingsley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Africa, West categories.
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.
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Author : Mary Henrietta Kingsley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
Travels In West Africa written by Mary Henrietta Kingsley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Africa, West categories.
A sensitive ethnologist and naturalist, after being freed from a life as a housekeeper and nurse by the death of her parents and brother, Mary Kingsley travelled and recorded tribal customs and beliefs.
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Author : Kingsley Mary
language : en
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-07-27
Travels In West Africa written by Kingsley Mary and has been published by BoD - Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-27 with Fiction categories.
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.
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Author : Mary H. Kingsley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1965
Travels In West Africa written by Mary H. Kingsley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Travel categories.
First published in 1897, Kingsley strove to understand African societies from within.
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Author : H. Mary Kingsley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-06-01
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Author : Mary H Kingsley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-02-06
Travels In West Africa written by Mary H Kingsley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-06 with categories.
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.
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Author : M. Kingsley
language : en
Publisher: Orbit Books
Release Date : 1999-12-31
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Travels In Western Africa In The Years 1818 19 20 And 21
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Author : William Gray (Major.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1825
Travels In Western Africa In The Years 1818 19 20 And 21 written by William Gray (Major.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1825 with Africa categories.
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Author : Mary H Kingsley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-02-06
Travels In West Africa written by Mary H Kingsley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-06 with categories.
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.
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Author : Mary Kingsley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-01-13
Travels In West Africa written by Mary Kingsley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-13 with categories.
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.