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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.
Mary Kingsley, niece of Water Babies author Charles Kingsley, was a Victorian explorer who travelled extensively in west Africa in the 1890s. Most of the time she was the only white person for miles around, managing an ever-changing team of native porters and pathfinders. The book, Travels In West Africa, is little-known today outside ...
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Jul 8, 1982 · Programme includes: Mary Kingsley's Travels in West Africa (first published in 1897) and Isabella Bird's A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (first published in 1879) Also, writer Elizabeth Jane ...
Nov 23, 2016 · In the case of Mary Kingsley, it was the threat that she posed to the widely accepted principles of 19th century society, and to the people whose status and reputation rested on the pillars of Victorian imperialism. Not that Mary ever set out to topple the system. Self-deprecating to a fault, she claimed no sympathy with the women’s suffrage ...
Mary Kingsley. 13 October 1862 - 03 June 1900. Standard Name: Kingsley, Mary. Birth Name: Mary Henrietta Kingsley. MK 's two lengthy travel books about West Africa feature personal experience (including sharply amusing anecdotes) and comment on African culture, politics, and biology. As well as books, she penned essays for periodicals and ...
104 x 143 mm. A mounted and framed print. The portrait is a full length studio photograph and shows Mary Kingsley standing beside a stone balustrade against a painted backdrop of gardens and woodland. Also mounted in the frame photograph is a letter from her brother Charles Kingsley to Sir John Smalman Smith dated August 31 1901, presenting him ...
