Author : Mary H. Kingsley
Publisher :
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 18,39 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Africa, West
ISBN :
As a dutiful Victorian daughter, the author was thirty before being freed (by her parents' deaths) to do as she chose. She went to West Africa in 1893 and again in 1895, to investigate the beliefs and customs of the inland tribes and also to collect zoological specimens. She was appalled by the 'thin veneer of rubbishy white culture' imposed by British officials and was not afraid to say so.
Author : John Duncan
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 1847
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Publisher :
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Africa, West
ISBN :
Author : Mungo Park
Publisher :
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 1800
Category : Africa, West
ISBN :
Author : Mungo Park
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 2018-10-07
Category :
ISBN : 9780341789895
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Author : Barbara Schaff
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110498979
This handbook offers a systematic exploration of current key topics in travel writing studies. It addresses the history, impact, and unique discursive variety of British travel writing by covering some of the most celebrated and canonical authors of the genre as well as lesser known ones in more than thirty close-reading chapters. Combining theoretically informed, astute literary criticism of single texts with the analysis of the circumstances of their production and reception, these chapters offer excellent possibilities for understanding the complexity and cultural relevance of British travel writing.
Author : Donald MacIntosh
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780349114354
Posted to Nigeria in 1954, the author, a Scottish forester, spent the next thirty years traveling through the "white man's grave"--The vast, mysterious, primeval forests of West and Central Africa. He heard tales of ancient Africa from the lips of hunters, fishermen and witch doctors; encountered the incredible creatures of the forest, from the magficent leopard to the homicidal buffalo;and befriended a range of remarkable and eccentric characters such as "Old Man Africa"," Magic T. Sperm", "Famous Sixpence" and "Pisspot". With the forests now sadly decimated, this is a rare, poignant and sometimes hilarious glimpse into Africa's vanished past.
Author : Caroline Alexander
Publisher : Orion
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Gabon
ISBN : 9781857990515
Nearly 100 years ago Mary Henrietta Kingsley made a journey to Africa about which she wrote on her return in Travels in West Africa. In this blend of historical sleuthing and travel writing, Caroline Alexander describes the effect on her of reading Kingsley's book and her decision to make her own journey in Kingsley's footsteps, following her path as closely as possible. Staying at Catholic missions, travelling by pirogue through waterways and rapids, she encounters the ghosts of Trader Horn, Albert Schweitzer and Dr Robert Nasau. But contact with the past gives way to adventures which might have amazed Miss Kingsley.
Author : Mungo Park
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 1825
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : Don Brown
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 2003-08-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0547349599
Mary Kingsley spent her childhood in a small house on a lonely lane outside London, England. Her mother was bedridden, her father rarely home, and Mary served as housekeeper, handyman, nursemaid, and servant. Not until she was thirty years old did Mary get her chance to explore the world she’d read about in her father’s library. In 1893, she arrived in West Africa, where she encountered giant Xying insects, crocodiles, hippos, and brutal heat. Mary endured the hardships of the equatorial country—and thrived.
