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Travels in West Africa
Av Mary Kingsley, Lynnette Turner
Häftad, 2015
171 kr
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A remarkable account by a pioneering woman explorer who was described by Rudyard Kipling as 'the bravest woman of all my knowledge'.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 …
Travels in West Africa
E-bok, 2015
125 kr
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A remarkable account by a pioneering woman explorer who was described by Rudyard Kipling as 'the bravest woman of all my knowledge'.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 …
Hippo Banquet
E-bok, 2015
17 kr
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'While engaged on this hunt I felt the earth quiver under my feet, and heard a soft big soughing sound, and looking round saw I had dropped in on a hippo banquet...'Told with verve and self-mocking wit, the adventures of doughty female Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley describe stumbling upon five …
The Congo and the Cameroons
E-bok, 2007
57 kr
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Contemptuous of Europe's 'civilising mission' in Africa, Mary Kingsley's (1862-1900) extraordinary journeys through tropical west Africa are a remarkable record, both of a world which has vanished and of a writer and explorer of immense bravery, wit and humanity. Paddling through mangrove swamps, …
West African Studies
Häftad, 2014
935 kr
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Contains important eye-witness accounts by English traders who had many years experience in the Delta area.
West African Studies
Inbunden, 1964
2581 kr
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Contains important eye-witness accounts by English traders who had many years experience in the Delta area.
Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons
Häftad, 2010
1039 kr
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Mary Kingsley (1862-1900) is one of the best-known Victorian women travellers, whose solo adventures in West Africa made her a celebrity in England. This, her first book, published in 1897, was an instant best-seller. She travelled extensively, engaging in trade both to fund her trip and to get to …
West African Studies
Häftad, 2010
1056 kr
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Mary Kingsley (1862-1900) is one of the best known Victorian women travellers, whose solo adventures in West Africa made her a celebrity in England. This, her second book, published in 1899, was an instant best-seller. She travelled extensively, engaging in trade both to fund her trip and to get to …
West African Studies
E-bok, 2013
1106 kr
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Contains important eye-witness accounts by English traders who had many years experience in the Delta area.
West African Studies
E-bok, 2013
1074 kr
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Contains important eye-witness accounts by English traders who had many years experience in the Delta area.
Travels in West Africa (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons
E-bok, 2011
21 kr
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Following the death of her parents in 1892, Mary Kingsley set out to finish her father''s anthropological studies in West Africa. She went deep into the jungles where she fought off crocodile and leopard alike. Published in 1897, Travels in West Africa is an account of her second journey to the …
