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This superb autobiographical classic recounts the remarkable journeys undertaken by a sheltered Victorian woman who ventured alone into the territory of known cannibals in order to continue her father's studies in West Africa. She made two journeys to West Africa: the first in 1893 at the age of thirty-one, and the second in 1894-5. First published in 1897, this account was an immediate success.
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Mary Kingsley was born in London in 1862. She lived the typical life of a single Victorian woman until 1893, when she embarked on a voyage to West Africa, followed by a second trip the following year. On returning home, she wrote Travels in West Africa, which was published in 1897. Kingsley made one final trip to Africa, enlisting as a volunteer nurse in South Africa during the Boer War. She died there in 1900 and was buried at sea. Lynnette Turner is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Edge Hill University. Toby Green is Lecturer in Lusophone African History and Culture at Kings College London. His book The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa appeared in 2011.
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- PublisherEveryman Paperback Classics
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0460873946
- ISBN 13 9780460873949
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages310
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