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Mary Kingsley
Travels in West Africa [EPUB ebook]
Abridged Edition – Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons

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Supported by a family inheritance that gave her GBP500 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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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 494 ● ISBN 9781775411277 ● Maison d’édition The Floating Press ● Publié 2009 ● Téléchargeable 6 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 2414687 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM

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