Travels in West Africa

Mary Henrietta Kingsley

Independently Published, Jan 17, 2020 - Fiction - 332 pages

As a dutiful Victorian daughter, the author was thirty before being freed (by her parents' deaths) to do as she chose. She went to West Africa in 1893 and again in 1895, to investigate the beliefs and customs of the inland tribes and also to collect zoological specimens.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Travels in West Africa
• Author: Mary Henrietta Kingsley
• Publisher: Independently Published, 2020
• ISBN: 1658936442, 9781658936446
• Length: 332 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics