Ronald Syme
African traveler;: The story of Mary Kingsley
Hardcover
(Morrow March 15, 1962)
The Story of Mary Kingsley who armed with an umbrella and wearing a flowered bonnet, long-sleeved blouse and ankle-length skirt stepped off a steamer in West Africa in 1893. While in the course of carrying out her commission to search for new specimens of fish for the British Museum she finds unexplored forests, arbitrates quarrels among tribal peoples and helps cure their ills. So many new adventures for this Victorian English young lady - a remarkable story.
- Pages
- 191
- Weight
- 12.8 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.8 x 5.4
in.