Télécharger le livre :  Travels in West Africa
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A remarkable account by a pioneering woman explorer who was described by Rudyard Kipling as 'the bravest woman of all my knowledge'.Until 1893, Mary Kingsley lived the typical life of a single Victorian woman, tending to sick relatives and keeping house for her brother....

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2015-08-27

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Télécharger le livre :  A Hippo Banquet
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'While engaged on this hunt I felt the earth quiver under my feet, and heard a soft big soughing sound, and looking round saw I had dropped in on a hippo banquet...'Told with verve and self-mocking wit, the adventures of doughty female Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2015-02-26

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Télécharger le livre :  The Congo and the Cameroons
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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....

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-02-01

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