Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons
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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...
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- Travels in West Africa (Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons) by Mary H. Kingsley.
- PREFACE
- PREFACE TO THE ABRIDGED EDITION OF TRAVELS IN WEST AFRICA.
- INTRODUCTION.
- CHAPTER I. LIVERPOOL TO SIERRA LEONE AND THE GOLD COAST.
- CHAPTER II. FERNANDO PO AND THE BUBIS.
- CHAPTER III. VOYAGE DOWN COAST.
- CHAPTER IV. THE OGOWÉ.
- CHAPTER V. THE RAPIDS OF THE OGOWÉ.
- CHAPTER VI. LEMBARENE.
- CHAPTER VII. ON THE WAY FROM KANGWE TO LAKE NCOVI.
- CHAPTER VIII. FROM NCOVI TO ESOON.
- CHAPTER IX. FROM ESOON TO AGONJO.
- CHAPTER X. BUSH TRADE AND FAN CUSTOMS.
- CHAPTER XI. DOWN THE REMBWÉ.
- CHAPTER XII. FETISH.
- CHAPTER XIII. FETISH - (continued).
- CHAPTER XIV. FETISH - (continued).
- CHAPTER XV. FETISH - (continued).
- CHAPTER XVI. FETISH - (concluded).
- CHAPTER XVII. ASCENT OF THE GREAT PEAK OF CAMEROONS.
- CHAPTER XVIII. ASCENT OF THE GREAT PEAK OF CAMEROONS - (continued).
- CHAPTER XIX. THE GREAT PEAK OF CAMEROONS - (continued).
- CHAPTER XX. THE GREAT PEAK OF CAMEROONS - (continued).
- CHAPTER XXI. TRADE AND LABOUR IN WEST AFRICA.
- CHAPTER XXII. DISEASE IN WEST AFRICA.
- APPENDIX. THE INVENTION OF THE CLOTH LOOM.
- NOTES.
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