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Travels in West Africa

by Mary Kingsley

Format:  Quality Paperback
Published:  July 2002
Category:  General
Publisher:  National Geographic Society
Pages:  320

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Until 1893, Mary Kingsley led a secluded life in Victorian England. But at age 30, defying every convention of womanhood of the time, she left England for West Africa to collect botanical specimens for a book left unfinished by her father at his death. Traveling through western and equatorial Africa and becoming the first European to enter some parts of Gabon, Kingsley’ s story--as an explorer and as a woman--would become an enduring tale of adventure, ranking 18th on 'Adventure magazine’ s list o

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