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Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862–1900)

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Inkluderar namnen: Mary H. Kingsley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley

Inkluderar även: Mary Kingsley (1)

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Födelsedag
1862-10-13
Avled
1900-06-03
Kön
female
Nationalitet
UK
Födelseort
Islington, London, England, UK
Dödsort
Simon's Town, South Africa
Bostadsorter
Highgate, London, England, UK
Bexley, Kent, England, UK
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Angola
South Africa
Utbildning
self-educated
Yrken
traveller
writer
nurse
explorer
Relationer
Kingsley, Charles (uncle)
Kingsley, Henry (uncle)
Kingsley, George (father)
Kort biografi
Mary Henrietta Kingsley was the daughter of Dr. George Kingsley and the niece of Charles Kingsley and Henry Kingsley. She was educated at home with a governess and kept house for her invalid parents until their deaths. She then embarked upon two famously adventurous trips to Africa in 1893–1895, which included visits to Zaire, Nigeria, the French Congo, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea, among others. She wrote two books about her experiences, both bestsellers, Travels in West Africa (1897) and West Africa Studies (1899). These works, which defended the humanity and character of the people she met and observed, came to have a great influence on the way the English public viewed Africans. She died of a fever in South Africa at age 38 while working as a volunteer nurse during the Boer War. The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine founded an honorary medal in her name.

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“One thing about Negro and Bantu races is very certain, and that is their lives are dominated by a profound belief in witchcraft and its effects” Chapter Ten: The World of the Spirit – page 178

The book combines accounts of unbelievably arduous forest, river and mountain journeys (which she made in sole charge of her local bearers and guides) with disturbing comments on cannibalism, witchcraft and the fate of twins born in West Africa. She died aged only 38 – of enteric fever from nursing Boer prisoners of war – and was (at her earlier request) buried at sea off Simon’s Town.

Her account is lively, amusing and often self-deprecating although I was disturbed that she found the murderous colonial governor of Cameroon, Herr von Puttkamer “exceedingly good company”.
… (mer)
 
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mnicol | 5 andra recensioner | Nov 9, 2023 |
En este segundo viaje, cuyas increíbles peripecias narra con humor, Mary Kingsley remontó en canoa el río Ogowé, en Gabón, hasta el país de los caníbales fang, para lo cual tuvo que atravesar pantanos, a veces a nado, y enfrentarse, sombrilla en mano, al peligro de los cocodrilos. Donado por César Pescador Galindo
 
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LaComarca | 5 andra recensioner | Nov 5, 2022 |
A brilliant tale of adventure from the life of Mary Kingsley and her travels in West Africa. They are utterly incredible, and I enjoyed her humour and wit which shone right through in her writing.

Definitely worth a read.
 
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TCLinrow | 5 andra recensioner | Mar 17, 2021 |

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Statistik

Verk
8
Även av
2
Medlemmar
863
Popularitet
#29,664
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
18
ISBN
58
Språk
4

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