Travels in West Africa
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Travels in West Africa
(A Phoenix Press paperback)
Phoenix, 2000
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Travels in West Africa : the classic account of one woman's epic and eccentric journey in the 1890s
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"First published in Great Britain by Macmillan & Co., London in 1897"--t.p. verso
Originally published: London: Folio Society, 1976
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Born in 1862, Mary Kingsley was the daughter of an explorer who was freed to follow in her father's footsteps following her parents' death. She made two trips in the 1890s, and her lively and witty account, reproduced here, was an immediate bestseller when first published in 1897.
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