One Dry Season
In the Footsteps of Mary Kingsley
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1990
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7475-0078-0 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7475-0078-0 (ISBN)
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Nearly 100 years ago Mary Henrietta Kingsley made a journey to Africa and on her return wrote "Travels in West Africa". In this blend of historical sleuthing and travel writing, Caroline Alexander describes her own journey made in Kingsley's footsteps to a country virtually unchanged since 1894.
Nearly 100 years ago Mary Henrietta Kingsley made a journey to Africa about which she wrote on her return in "Travels in West Africa". In this blend of historical sleuthing and travel writing, Caroline Alexander describes the effect on her of reading Kingsley's book and her decision to make her own journey in Kingsley's footsteps, following her path as closely as possible. Staying at Catholic missions, travelling by "pirogue" through waterways and rapids, she encounters the ghosts of Trader Horn, Albert Schweitzer and Dr Robert Nasau. But contact with the past gives way to adventures which might have amazed Miss Kingsley.
Nearly 100 years ago Mary Henrietta Kingsley made a journey to Africa about which she wrote on her return in "Travels in West Africa". In this blend of historical sleuthing and travel writing, Caroline Alexander describes the effect on her of reading Kingsley's book and her decision to make her own journey in Kingsley's footsteps, following her path as closely as possible. Staying at Catholic missions, travelling by "pirogue" through waterways and rapids, she encounters the ghosts of Trader Horn, Albert Schweitzer and Dr Robert Nasau. But contact with the past gives way to adventures which might have amazed Miss Kingsley.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.1.1990 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | photographs |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 240 mm |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Afrika |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7475-0078-9 / 0747500789 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7475-0078-0 / 9780747500780 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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