Author: Mary H. Kingsley
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Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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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.
Author: Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Publisher:
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Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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Author: Mary H. Kingsley
Publisher:
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Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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Author: Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368346857
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Author: Kingsley Mary
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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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.
Author: MARY H. KINGSLEY
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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"Explorez l'Afrique de l'Ouest à travers les aventures intrépides de Mary H. Kingsley dans "Travels in West Africa (Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons)". Laissez-vous transporter à travers la plume vibrante de Kingsley dans des régions méconnues du XIXe siècle, allant du Congo Français à Corisco et aux Camerouns. Plongez dans des récits captivants de rencontres avec des cultures tribales fascinantes, des expéditions dans des jungles épaisses et des observations aiguës sur la faune et la flore exotiques. Kingsley offre une perspective unique sur les défis et les merveilles de l'Afrique occidentale, tout en dépeignant le courage personnel nécessaire pour explorer des terres inexplorées. "Travels in West Africa" est bien plus qu'un simple récit de voyage ; c'est une fenêtre ouverte sur un monde lointain, mêlant aventure, anthropologie et exploration botanique, et invitant les lecteurs à découvrir la diversité et la beauté de l'Afrique à travers les yeux d'une exploratrice audacieuse."
Author: Mary Kingsley
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775411273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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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.
Author: Mary Henrietta Kingsley
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Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Author: Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Publisher: Arkose Press
ISBN: 9781344100960
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Author: Mary H. Kingsley
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN: 9781414264875
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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