Travel

Travels in West Africa

by Mary Kingsley

Mary Kingsley travelled alone through West Africa in the 1890s, collecting fish, trading cloth and wading through swamps in a long black skirt. Her humour is dry and her observations sharp; she questioned the colonial assumptions of her readers more than most travellers dared.

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Project Gutenberg, eBook #5891. In the public domain in the United States.