- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Classics (1 Feb 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141025514
- ISBN-13: 978-0141025513
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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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. 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.
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One of the most witty and thoughtful of Victorian explorers, Mary Kingsley (1862-1900) travelled in West Africa to study local customs and the natural history of the region and greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and African people. Kingsley wrote two books about her experiences: Travels in West Africa (1897), which was an immediate bestseller, and West African Studies (1899).
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There is a uniformity in the habits of West Coast rivers, from the Volta to the Coanza, which is, when you get used to it, very taking. Read the first page
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There is a uniformity in the habits of West Coast rivers, from the Volta to the Coanza, which is, when you get used to it, very taking. Read the first page
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While very entertaining, this book is basically a series of extracts from Mary Kingsley's "Travels in West Africa". I would advise anyone to buy the unabridged version instead
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