Travels In West Africa: The Classic Account of One Woman's Epic and Eccentric Journey in the 1890's by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Travels In West Africa: The Classic Account of One Woman's Epic and Eccentric Journey in the 1890's
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Mary Henrietta Kingsley
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Travels In West Africa: The Classic Account of One Woman's Epic and Eccentric Journey in the 1890's

Mary Henrietta Kingsley

304 pages • first pub 1897 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous reflective slow-paced
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She came from the Victorian age, when women lived sheltered and subjugated. Yet, when Mary Kingsley's invalid parents died within six weeks of each other, she followed in her explorer father's footsteps and traveled to Africa against her society's...

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