A Voyager Out The Life Of Mary Kingsley By Katherine Frank

Description: A Voyager Out The Life Of Mary Kingsley By Katherine Frank. "Kathrine Frank's biography will put Mary Kingsley where she belongs ib the first rank of intrepid adventures.: - Brigitte Weeks, Newsday Long before Isak Dinesen set foot in Africa, Mary Kingsley pierced that magnificent continent. The courageous and celebrated woman who broke through the walls of Victorian propriety to find her true life on the dangerous West Coast of Africa Mary Kingley, the daughter of an amateur explorer and a bedridden mother, escaped her dreary home life by steeping herself in travel books, in the legends of the heart-shaped African continent. At the age of thirty, liberated by the death of her parents, she was able to fulfill her own dream as she ventured deep into the heart of the African bush, penetrating worlds few white men and no white women had seen before.In her crinolines and starched white blouses, working as a trader so she might get to know the native tribes, Kingsley experienced adventures both hair-raising and enlightening. Kingsley's triumphs as a woman forging her own pevilous history gained attention through her two now-classic books Travels in West Africa and West African Studies. Her story is, quite simply, remarkable. "Katherine Frank has written a quietly beautiful biography that reveals not only the outer life of an extraordinary traveler but something of her inner life as well." - The New York Times Book Review This book is USED. So there may be some imperfections.

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