The Congo And The Cameroons

Author : Mary Kingsley
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141963166
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Congo and the Cameroons written by Mary Kingsley and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemptuous of Europe's 'civilising mission' in Africa, Mary Kingsley's (1862-1900) extraordinary journeys through tropical west Africa are a remarkable record, both of a world which has vanished and of a writer and explorer of immense bravery, wit and humanity. Paddling through mangrove swamps, fending off crocodiles, climbing Mount Cameroon, Kingsley is both admirable and funny. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries – but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

Author : Mary Kingsley
Publisher : ePenguin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Harry Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Grenfell and the Congo written by Harry Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.ND/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels in West Africa written by Mary Henrietta Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368346857
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons written by Mary Henrietta Kingsley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-29 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Author : Mary Kingsley
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775411273
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels in West Africa written by Mary Kingsley and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supported by a family inheritance that gave her £500 a year, Mary Henrietta Kingsley traveled to Africa to complete the book her father had started. The subject was the culture of Africa and Kingsley stayed with local people while she learned to survive in the African jungles, studied cannibal tribes, discovered new species of fish, and climbed Mount Cameroon by a route untouched by any European before her. Kingsley's ideas greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and the African people and her 1897 account, Travels in West Africa, quickly became a best-seller.

Author : Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels in West Africa written by Mary Henrietta Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary H. Kingsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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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 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gwendolen Margaret Carter
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five African States written by Gwendolen Margaret Carter and published by Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : MARY H. KINGSLEY
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book TRAVELS IN WEST AFRICA written by MARY H. KINGSLEY and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explorez l'Afrique de l'Ouest à travers les aventures intrépides de Mary H. Kingsley dans "Travels in West Africa (Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons)". Laissez-vous transporter à travers la plume vibrante de Kingsley dans des régions méconnues du XIXe siècle, allant du Congo Français à Corisco et aux Camerouns. Plongez dans des récits captivants de rencontres avec des cultures tribales fascinantes, des expéditions dans des jungles épaisses et des observations aiguës sur la faune et la flore exotiques. Kingsley offre une perspective unique sur les défis et les merveilles de l'Afrique occidentale, tout en dépeignant le courage personnel nécessaire pour explorer des terres inexplorées. "Travels in West Africa" est bien plus qu'un simple récit de voyage ; c'est une fenêtre ouverte sur un monde lointain, mêlant aventure, anthropologie et exploration botanique, et invitant les lecteurs à découvrir la diversité et la beauté de l'Afrique à travers les yeux d'une exploratrice audacieuse."