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Travels in West Africa

by Mary Kingsley
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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.

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Publisher: The Floating Press

Kindle Book

  • Release date: August 14, 2009

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  • ISBN: 9781775411277
  • Release date: August 14, 2009

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  • ISBN: 9781775411277
  • File size: 569 KB
  • Release date: August 14, 2009

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subjects

History Multi-Cultural Travel Nonfiction

Languages

English

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.

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History Multi-Cultural Travel Nonfiction