Mary Kingsley began her life as a typically conventional Victorian woman. She would end up travelling to some of the most inhospitable regions of Africa and became one of the most celebrated travellers of the day. At the age of 31, she sailed on a cargo ship along the coast from Sierra Leone to Angola and then traveled inland from Guinea to Nigeria, studying African customs and beliefs. On her second journey, she ventured into remote parts of Gabon and the French Congo--the first European to do so. She encountered cannibals ...
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Mary Kingsley began her life as a typically conventional Victorian woman. She would end up travelling to some of the most inhospitable regions of Africa and became one of the most celebrated travellers of the day. At the age of 31, she sailed on a cargo ship along the coast from Sierra Leone to Angola and then traveled inland from Guinea to Nigeria, studying African customs and beliefs. On her second journey, she ventured into remote parts of Gabon and the French Congo--the first European to do so. She encountered cannibals and crocodiles, studied the religious customs of the reclusive Fang tribe, climbed Mount Cameroon and explored the Ogowe River, trading cloth for ivory and rubber to fund her trip. She returned only once to Africa, during the Boer War, when she worked as a nurse and journalist. Tragically, she died of typhoid in 1900, only 38 years old.
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Very Good. Size: 8x6x1; Mary Kingsley became her mother's nurse and caretaker from age four to 30. Virtually abandoned by her world traveler father, she taught herself to read his medical books and had an insatiable interest in travel, tribal structure and religions, as well as flora and fauna. But as a proper daughter of the age, she was bound to the wish and whim of her father, and brother when the father died about the same time as her mother. Only when the brother journeyed half-heartedly in his father's footsteps was Mary finally free to make her own imprint upon the Death Coasts (where 9 of 10 Europeans died)...she made three trips to the rivers, swamps and colonial 'factories', studied diseases, collected fish and insects, but it was among the secretive tribes that she made so many discoveries about religion, more and government structure. Between voyages (1893, 1895) she wrote best selling books, lectured in famous scientific settings and, somehow, edited her father's copious notes into yet another book. Finally she sailed to South Africa where she treated Boar soldiers, women and children in British concentration camps.
