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Travels in West Africa Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons

Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862 - 1900) was an English writer and explorer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and African people. Her father was a doctor and worked for George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke. Her mother was an invalid and Mary was expected to stay at home and look after her. Mary had little formal schooling but she did have access to her father's large library and loved to hear her father's stories of foreign countries. Her father died in February 1892. Her mother also died just five weeks later ...

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