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Mary Kingsley
Victorian traveller Mary Kingsley has been portrayed as a victim of nineteenth-century attitudes towards women, a brave and daring explorer, an anti-imperialist agitator and even a feminist heroine. In this challenging and controversial new biography, Dea Birkett breaks through the shallow clichs which have defined this extraordinary female figure to frame a new image of the traveller as actively constructing her own history. For the first time, Mary Kingsley is seen as responding to and part of her time.
Travels in West Africa
Mary Henrietta Kingsley was an English ethnographic and scientific writer and explorer whose travels throughout West Africa and resulting work helped shape European perceptions of African cultures and British imperialism. After a preliminary visit to the Canary Islands, Kingsley decided to travel to the west coast of Africa. The only non-African women who regularly embarked on (often dangerous) journeys to Africa were usually the wives of missionaries, government officials, or explorers. Exploration and adventure were not seen as fitting roles for women in the Victorian era. Yet, when Mary Kingsley's invalid parents died within six weeks of each other, she followed in her explorer father's footsteps and traveled to Africa against her society's every convention. Here is her lively and witty account of that journey, an immediate bestseller when it first came out in 1897 and every bit as gripping today. Kingsley's complicated and indomitable character shines through in each sentence, as she describes hacking, marching, and climbing her way through the continent. After more than a century, she remains a feminist icon and a most remarkable woman.
Mary Kingsley
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Mary Kingsley
Kingsley set sail for Africa in 1893, embarking on a trip that would change not only her life, but the Victorian understanding of the "dark continent" as well.
West African Studies
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Uncommon Traveler
Mary Kingsley spent her childhood in a small house on a lonely lane outside London, England. Her mother was bedridden, her father rarely home, and Mary served as housekeeper, handyman, nursemaid, and servant. Not until she was thirty years old did Mary get her chance to explore the world she’d read about in her father’s library. In 1893, she arrived in West Africa, where she encountered giant Xying insects, crocodiles, hippos, and brutal heat. Mary endured the hardships of the equatorial country—and thrived.
Mary Kingsley
This volume is part of a biography series exploring the lives and achievements of important inventors and pioneers. As well as providing the life story of Mary Kingsley and an analysis of her work, this book places her achievements in context by looking at the technological and historical context of the time. The book includes: a look at the ongoing impact of Kingsley's work; quotes and writings from the newspapers and journals of the time; and information about the men and women who affected her life and work.
A Voyager Out
Map on lining papers. A biography of the Victorian explorergeographer, scientist, and author of travel books on West Africa.
