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Travels in West Africa
de Mary H. Kingsley
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good Condition
- Librería
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Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
The Folio Society, London, 1976. Hardcover (in Slipcase). Very Good Condition. Edited and introduced by Elspeth Huxley. She landed in Sierra Leone in August 1893 and pressed on into Luanda in Angola. She lived with local people, who taught her necessary skills for surviving in the African jungles, and often went into dangerous areas alone. Her training as a nurse prepared her for slight injuries and jungle maladies that she would later encounter. She returned to England in December 1893. She returned to Africa in December 1894 and died there in 1900. Illustrated cloth. Spine edge has discolouration. 276 pages. Ex-Libris pasted in. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Rare & Collectible::Folio Society; Biography & Autobiography; Autobiography::Memoir. Inventory No: 256707. .
Sinopsis
What this book wants is not a simple Preface but an apology, and a very brilliant and convincing one at that. Recognising this fully, and feeling quite incompetent to write such a masterpiece, I have asked several literary friends to write one for me, but they have kindly but firmly declined, stating that it is impossible satisfactorily to apologise for my liberties with Lindley Murray and the Queen's English.
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El Feb 7 2011, Honeykitten dijo:
I loved this book. It is available at my local library but I want my own copy because I am sure I will read it again. Before I read this I read A Voyager Out which was very helpful. Her writing style is similar to conversation she writes as a Victorian Cockney would talk using colloquialisms. Plus she was a very bold woman understanding her upbringing made reading her book more understandable. Very glad to have met Mary Kingsley through these two books.
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Detalles
- Librería
- leura books
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 256707
- Título
- Travels in West Africa
- Autor
- Mary H. Kingsley
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover (in Slipcase)
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good Condition
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- The Folio Society
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1976
- Palabras clave
- BZDB43 Rare & Collectible::Folio Society; Biography & Autobiography; Autobiography::Memoir. Unbranded Mary H. Kingsley Travels in West Africa
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Autobiography / Memoir;
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