Travels in West Africa-Mary Kingsley-National Geographic Society

Travels in West Africa
Mary Kingsley
National Geographic Society
Inglês
5
Brochado
Prosa
EUR12,00
LT016638
2002
Adventure Classics

365


15 x 23

In 1893, defying every convention of Victorian womanhood, Mary Kingsley set off alone for West Africa to collect botanical specimens. Unaccompanied except for native guides, she plunged boldly into forbidding jungles, often the first European and almost always the first white woman ever to arrive. Undaunted by tales of ferocious cannibals, she made friends with the tribes she met and collected priceless samples of flora and fauna. Along the way she fought off crocodiles with a paddle and hit a leopard over the head with a pot. When she fell into a trap lined with sharp sticks, she was saved by her voluminous crinolines for she always dressed like a lady. Travels in West Africa is a book as vivid and unforgettable as the extraordinary woman herself. The charm of West Africa is a painful it gives you pleasure when you are out there, but when you are back here it gives you pain by calling you . . . Come back, come back, this is your home. Mary Kingsley National Geographic Adventure Classics is a series that celebrates the 100 greatest adventure books of all time, as compiled by a panel of experts for National Geographic Adventure. These titles have been carefully selected for their adrenaline quotient and their status as classics of the adventure genre.
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Travels in West Africa-Mary Kingsley-National Geographic Society

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