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Travels In West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroon
by Mary Kingsley
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Oswestry, Shropshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1965. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Third edition hardback with a new introduction by John E. Flint, 1965, in an unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - dj rubbed to edges (now protected); red cloth boards slightly rubbed to corners but remain overall clean and crisp. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotations or inscriptions - owner’s book-plate to front pastedown; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Includes several press-clippings inserted at the end of the book. Not an old library book.
Synopsis
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hall of Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 180347
- Title
- Travels In West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroon
- Author
- Mary Kingsley
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frank Cass & Co. Ltd
- Date Published
- 1965
- Bookseller catalogs
- Auto/Biography; History / Africa; Travel / Africa;
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