The Congo And The Cameroons

Author : Mary Kingsley
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780141963167

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The Congo and the Cameroons by Mary Kingsley Pdf

Contemptuous of Europe's 'civilising mission' in Africa, Mary Kingsley's (1862-1900) extraordinary journeys through tropical west Africa are a remarkable record, both of a world which has vanished and of a writer and explorer of immense bravery, wit and humanity. Paddling through mangrove swamps, fending off crocodiles, climbing Mount Cameroon, Kingsley is both admirable and funny. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries – but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

Author : Mary Kingsley
Publisher : ePenguin
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : IND:30000115656013

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The Congo and the Cameroons by Mary Kingsley Pdf

Mary Kingsley's journeys through tropical west Africa are a remarkable record, both of a world that has vanished and of a writer of immense bravery, wit and humanity. Paddling through mangrove swamps, fending off crocodiles, climbing Mount Cameroon, Kingsley is both admirable and funny.

Author : Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : HARVARD:TZ1JND

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Travels in West Africa by Mary Henrietta Kingsley Pdf

Author : Mary Kingsley
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781775411277

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Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley Pdf

Supported by a family inheritance that gave her £500 a year, Mary Henrietta Kingsley traveled to Africa to complete the book her father had started. The subject was the culture of Africa and Kingsley stayed with local people while she learned to survive in the African jungles, studied cannibal tribes, discovered new species of fish, and climbed Mount Cameroon by a route untouched by any European before her. Kingsley's ideas greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and the African people and her 1897 account, Travels in West Africa, quickly became a best-seller.

Author : Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368346850

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Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons by Mary Henrietta Kingsley Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : OSU:32435007183130

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Travels in West Africa by Mary Henrietta Kingsley Pdf

Author : Harry Johnston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : MSU:31293300091422

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George Grenfell and the Congo by Harry Johnston Pdf

Author : Mary Kingsley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108022002

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Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons by Mary Kingsley Pdf

This best-selling account of a single Englishwoman's travels in West Africa was first published in 1897.

Author : Gwendolen Margaret Carter
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105083091798

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Five African States by Gwendolen Margaret Carter Pdf

Author : MARY H. KINGSLEY
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9791041981670

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TRAVELS IN WEST AFRICA by MARY H. KINGSLEY Pdf

"Explorez l'Afrique de l'Ouest à travers les aventures intrépides de Mary H. Kingsley dans "Travels in West Africa (Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons)". Laissez-vous transporter à travers la plume vibrante de Kingsley dans des régions méconnues du XIXe siècle, allant du Congo Français à Corisco et aux Camerouns. Plongez dans des récits captivants de rencontres avec des cultures tribales fascinantes, des expéditions dans des jungles épaisses et des observations aiguës sur la faune et la flore exotiques. Kingsley offre une perspective unique sur les défis et les merveilles de l'Afrique occidentale, tout en dépeignant le courage personnel nécessaire pour explorer des terres inexplorées. "Travels in West Africa" est bien plus qu'un simple récit de voyage ; c'est une fenêtre ouverte sur un monde lointain, mêlant aventure, anthropologie et exploration botanique, et invitant les lecteurs à découvrir la diversité et la beauté de l'Afrique à travers les yeux d'une exploratrice audacieuse."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : IND:30000129685909

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Cameroon-Congo (Brazzaville) Boundary by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Forsell Kirby,Mary Henrietta Kingsley,Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Gunther
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0343883392

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Travels in West Africa by William Forsell Kirby,Mary Henrietta Kingsley,Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Gunther Pdf

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Author : Mark Dike DeLancey,Mark W. Delancey,Rebecca Neh Mbuh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538119686

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Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon by Mark Dike DeLancey,Mark W. Delancey,Rebecca Neh Mbuh Pdf

Cameroon is a land of much promise, but a land of unfulfilled promises. It has the potential to be an economically developed and democratic society but the struggle to live up to its potential has not gone well. Since independence there have been only two presidents of Cameroon; the current one has been in office since 1982. Endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals and substantial forests, and a dynamic population, this is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. To all of this is recently added a serious terrorism problem, Boko Haram, in the north, a separatist movement in the Anglophone west, refugee influxes in the north and east, and bandits from the Central African Republic attacking eastern villages. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Republic of Cameroon.

Author : Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : UOM:39015035315061

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Travels in West Africa by Mary Henrietta Kingsley Pdf

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.

Author : Caren Caraway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art, African
ISBN : OCLC:1024172830

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African Designs of the Congo, Nigeria, the Cameroons and the Guinea Coast by Caren Caraway Pdf