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Mary Kingsley was a fairly typical Victorian young woman, apart from her avid interest in science and engineering. After her parents died in 1892, she set of to
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Pages: 280
Authors: Cheryl McEwan
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This title was first published 2000: This text is intended to draw together two important developments in contemporary geography: firstly, the recognition of th
Victorian Women Travel Writers in Africa
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Catherine Barnes Stevenson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982 - Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers

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Travels in West Africa
Language: en
Pages: 896
Authors: Mary H. Kingsley
Categories: Africa, West
Type: BOOK - Published: 1897 - Publisher:

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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
Friends and Foes in the Transkei
Language: en
Pages: 172
Authors: Helen M. Prichard
Categories: History
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Pioneer days in South Africa Helen Prichard arrived in South Africa with her family in 1876. The colonisation of the interior was in full swing and hers was a f