200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Part I: Heredity and Environment 1. Early Years Part II: Eight Years of Achievement 2. The First Journey 3. The Second Journey: The Rivers 4. The Second Journey: ‘Going for Bush’ 5. Some Animals and a Mountain 6. The ‘Mind Forest’ 7. The Forest of Politics 8. Books and Friends 9. The Last Job
Biography
Olwen Campbell was a poet, critic, and biographer.
