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Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862-1900) was an English writer and trailblazing woman explorer whose reports of her experiences in Africa, and her championing of the dignity of indigenous Africans and their customs, shed a new light on the continent for European audiences. She died in South Africa during the Second Boer War, serving as a nurse.




10 电子书 Mary Kingsley

Mary Kingsley: Travels in West Africa
Mary Henrietta Kingsley was an English ethnographic and scientific writer and explorer whose travels throughout West Africa and resulting work helped shape European perceptions of African cultures an …
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Mary Kingsley: Travels in West Africa
‘Travels in West Africa’ is a book as vivid and unforgettable as the extraordinary author herself, Mary Kingsley. In 1893, defying every convention of Victorian womanhood, Mary Kingsley set off alone …
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Mary Kingsley: West African Studies
Contains important eye-witness accounts by English traders who had many years experience in the Delta area. …
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€69.83
Mary Kingsley: West African Studies
Contains important eye-witness accounts by English traders who had many years experience in the Delta area. …
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英语
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€69.49
Mary Kingsley: Travels in West Africa
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 Kingsl …
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€4.25
Mary Kingsley: Travels in West Africa
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 Kingsl …
PDF
英语
DRM
€4.22
Mary Kingsley: Travels in West Africa
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 Victor …
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€10.99
Mary Kingsley: Hippo Banquet
‘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 w …
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Mary Kingsley: Congo and the Cameroons
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 an …
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Mary Kingsley: Travels in West Africa (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
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 leop …
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