Travels in West Africa [Audiobook] download free by Mary H. Kingsley
- Listen audiobook: Travels in West Africa
- Author: Mary H. Kingsley
- Release date: 2002/6/24
- Publisher: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BOOKS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780792266389
- Rating: 7.32 of 10
- Votes: 520
- Review by: Jairo Waite
- Review rating: 9.05 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/1
- Duration: 3H56M12S in 256 kbps (64 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-28
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP4, WAV, WMA, FLAC, AAC, MPEG4, MP3 (compression 7-ZIP, CPIO, RAR, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 320
- Includes a PDF summary of 32 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 23M11S (6.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Unique perspective: Until 1893, Mary Kingsley led a secluded life in Victorian England. At age 30 however, Kingsley defied convention and arranged a trip to west Africa to collect botanical samples for a book left unfinished by her father. Such a daring adventure was unheard of for women at the time. Kingsley traveled through western and equatorial Africa and became the first European to enter parts of Gabon. Her story-as an explorer and as a woman-offers an enduring tale of adventure. Adventure writer and historian Tony Brandt sets Kingsley's Africa against the history of other European explorations of the continent and details her contributions not only to literature, but science as she collected more than 400 samples-some now extinct-of plants and insects. Handsome editions, competitively priced: Gathered together for the first time in inexpensive, accessible editions, Adventure Press Classics offer readers the opportunity to build a comprehensive library of the most adrenaline-packed tales of adventure ever written. She was the first Englishwoman and the 'third Englishman,' as she put it, to climb the great peak of the Cameroons.She traveled with native guides but otherwise without a man along into some of West Africa's most dangerous jungles, up its most dangerous rivers. She fought off crocodiles with a paddle, hit a leopard over the head with a pot, fell into an animal trap lined at the bottom with sharpened sticks, waded through swamps in water chin deep. Then she wrote this book, which describes her adventures in detail, as well as her discoveries as a naturalist and her observations of the Africans and their customs. She writes a brisk engaging prose and she is clearly dauntless. The book was no. 18 on the Adventure list of the 100 best adventure books. It's a wonderful read.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Memoirs, Classic Travel Writing, Guidebooks, African History
- Download servers: Degoo, Dropbox, Hotfile, Torrent, Krakenfiles, 4Shared. Compressed in 7-ZIP, CPIO, RAR, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 18.94 USD
- Dimensions: 153x228x23mm
- Weight: 524g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Washington, United States
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