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Book Synopsis Travels in West Africa by : Mary H. Kingsley
Download or read book Travels in West Africa written by Mary H. Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a dutiful Victorian daughter, the author was thirty before being freed (by her parents' deaths) to do as she chose. She went to West Africa in 1893 and again in 1895, to investigate the beliefs and customs of the inland tribes and also to collect zoological specimens. She was appalled by the 'thin veneer of rubbishy white culture' imposed by British officials and was not afraid to say so.
Book Synopsis West African Studies by : Mary H. Kingsley
Download or read book West African Studies written by Mary H. Kingsley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: West African Studies by Mary H. Kingsley
Download or read book Uncommon Traveler written by Don Brown and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003-08-25 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Kingsley spent her childhood in a small house on a lonely lane outside London, England. Her mother was bedridden, her father rarely home, and Mary served as housekeeper, handyman, nursemaid, and servant. Not until she was thirty years old did Mary get her chance to explore the world she’d read about in her father’s library. In 1893, she arrived in West Africa, where she encountered giant Xying insects, crocodiles, hippos, and brutal heat. Mary endured the hardships of the equatorial country—and thrived.
Download or read book A Voyager Out written by Katherine Frank and published by Tauris Parke Paperbacks. This book was released on 2005-11-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Kingsley began her life as a typically conventional Victorian woman. She would end up travelling to some of the most inhospitable regions of Africa and became one of the most celebrated travellers of the day. At the age of 31, she sailed on a cargo ship along the coast from Sierra Leone to Angola and then traveled inland from Guinea to Nigeria, studying African customs and beliefs. On her second journey, she ventured into remote parts of Gabon and the French Congo--the first European to do so. She encountered cannibals and crocodiles, studied the religious customs of the reclusive Fang tribe, climbed Mount Cameroon and explored the Ogowe River, trading cloth for ivory and rubber to fund her trip. She returned only once to Africa, during the Boer War, when she worked as a nurse and journalist. Tragically, she died of typhoid in 1900, only 38 years old.
Book Synopsis West African Studies by : Mary Kingsley
Download or read book West African Studies written by Mary Kingsley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains important eye-witness accounts by English traders who had many years experience in the Delta area.
Book Synopsis One Dry Season by : Caroline Alexander
Download or read book One Dry Season written by Caroline Alexander and published by Orion. This book was released on 1993 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 100 years ago Mary Henrietta Kingsley made a journey to Africa about which she wrote on her return in Travels in West Africa. In this blend of historical sleuthing and travel writing, Caroline Alexander describes the effect on her of reading Kingsley's book and her decision to make her own journey in Kingsley's footsteps, following her path as closely as possible. Staying at Catholic missions, travelling by pirogue through waterways and rapids, she encounters the ghosts of Trader Horn, Albert Schweitzer and Dr Robert Nasau. But contact with the past gives way to adventures which might have amazed Miss Kingsley.
Download or read book A Hippo Banquet written by Mary Kingsley and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 hippos by night, dodging elephants and fighting off a leopard with a stool. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Mary Kingsley (1862-1900). Kingsley's work is available in Penguin Classics in Travels in West Africa.
Book Synopsis Marrying Miss Bumblebroth by : Mary Kingsley
Download or read book Marrying Miss Bumblebroth written by Mary Kingsley and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dubbed "Miss Bumblebroth" after a clumsy season, Chloe Russell never expects to land a titled husband. But marriage to Lord Michael Lyndon may prove more vexing. For while Michael is determined to rescue her from her clumsiness, Chloe wonders who will rescue her vulnerable heart from her husband's charm. (June)
Book Synopsis The Congo and the Cameroons by : Mary Kingsley
Download or read book The Congo and the Cameroons written by Mary Kingsley and published by ePenguin. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Kingsley's journeys through tropical west Africa are a remarkable record, both of a world that has vanished and of a writer of immense bravery, wit and humanity. Paddling through mangrove swamps, fending off crocodiles, climbing Mount Cameroon, Kingsley is both admirable and funny.
Download or read book An Angel's Wish written by Mary Kingsley and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When David Fairfax, Marquess of Stowe, and his estranged wife, Tess, are reunited during Christmas for the sake of their young daughter, the enchantment of the season makes their love seem possible again.
Book Synopsis Explore with Mary Kingsley by : Tim Cooke
Download or read book Explore with Mary Kingsley written by Tim Cooke and published by Travel with the Great Explorer. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The important travels and writings of English explorer Mary Kingsley helped develop the British public's knowledge about the African continent. Her concern for indigenous people influenced a change in British practices in Africa. From her travels by boat to her studies of West African tribes and work as a nurse, this book describes her inspiring life using engaging fact boxes and historical information presented in tabloid-style.
Book Synopsis The Lady Farmer Guide to Slow Living by : Mary E. Kingsley
Download or read book The Lady Farmer Guide to Slow Living written by Mary E. Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short, easy-to-digest guide is full of engaging stories, recipes, tips, tricks, and ideas for anyone interested in living more mindfully and harmoniously with themselves and the Earth. Includes three weeks of exercises designed to help the reader make slow living a part of their daily life, no matter where they are.
Download or read book Mary Kingsley written by Olwen Campbell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name of Mary Kingsley deserves to be more widely known than it is today. A woman of rare abilities and boundless courage, living in an age when the narrowest Victorian conventions about the duties of daughters in the home still prevailed, she nevertheless achieved fame and distinction as a traveller in the wildest regions of West Africa, a writer, an ethnologist, and an expert on Colonial Government. As a young woman, Mary Kingsley had no life beyond the strict confines of her home; not until 1892, when she was thirty, did freedom come to her. Instantly this astonishing young woman began the work, which was to lead her to remote, unexplored regions of ‘the Coast’. Along unmapped rivers, to a study of cannibals, and in England, to a political struggle to which she wholeheartedly gave herself for the welfare of the peoples of West Africa, until her death in 1900. In vivid, discursive travel books, Mary Kingsley described her experiences with immense detachment and humour. These lengthy works have long been out of print, but in Mary Kingsley: A Victorian in the Jungle (first published in 1957.) Olwen Campbell, by presenting selected extracts, preserves in a concise form the record of these strange adventures. But the adventures themselves are only a part of a remarkable life story. The effects on Mary Kingsley’s character of her oppressive home life are fully brought out for the first time, and some explanation is suggested of a most enigmatic personality. Fresh light is also thrown on her political work, and her character, by a number of extracts from a series of remarkable letters, never before published.
Book Synopsis Something of Themselves by : Sarah LeFanu
Download or read book Something of Themselves written by Sarah LeFanu and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful biography tracing the paths of three literary greats through a turbulent period in Britain's imperial history.
Book Synopsis The Rake's Reward by : Mary Kingsley
Download or read book The Rake's Reward written by Mary Kingsley and published by Five Star (ME). This book was released on 2002 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Maps of Englishness by : Simon Gikandi
Download or read book Maps of Englishness written by Simon Gikandi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gikandi explores the politics of identity to analyze how the colonial experience inspired narrative forms that changed the nature of the English identity by surveying the British imperial tradition since the nineteenth century. He provides detailed readings of the works of Trollope, Carlyle, and others; through the narratives of imperial women travelers such as Mary Kingsley and Mary Seacole; and through Africanist texts by Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene and postcolonialists such as Salman Rushdie and Joan Riley.
Book Synopsis Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley by : Daniel L. Schafer
Download or read book Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley written by Daniel L. Schafer and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Award In this revised and expanded edition of Anna Kingsley’s remarkable life story, Daniel Schafer draws on new discoveries to prove true the longstanding rumors that Anna Madgigine Jai was originally a princess from the royal family of Jolof in Senegal. Captured from her homeland in 1806, she became first an American slave, later a slaveowner, and eventually a central figure in a free black community. Anna Kingsley’s story adds a dramatic chapter to the history of the South, the state of Florida, and the African diaspora.
