Travels in West Africa

<b>The text of this book is not available in this moment.</b><br/><img src="/Content/books/thumbs/1606.jpg" style="margin-top:15px;margin-right:15px;margin-bottom:25px;float:left"><u>Travels in West Africa</u><br><span>Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an British explorer and writer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and its people. Kingsley was an outspoken critic of European colonialism, a champion for indigenous customs, and a dedicated campaigner for a revised British policy which supported traders and merchants over the needs of settlers and missionaries.<br/><br/>Her adventures were extraordinary and fascinating. Among other things she fought with crocodiles, fell into native spear traps and was caught in a tornado on the slopes of Mount Cameroon. She traveled in West Africa wearing the same clothes she always wore in England: long, black, trailing skirts, tight waists, high collars and a small fur cap. These same clothes saved her life when she fell into a game pit, the many petticoats protecting her from being impaled on the stakes below.<br/><br/>This is her story in her own words of her adventures and the people and culture of West Africa. </span><div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />