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Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley

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Travels in West Africa
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Publisher: Macmillan and co.
ISBN/ASIN: 0486424901
Number of pages: 416

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The breathtaking, edifying and hilariously entertaining autobiographical tale of the famous British 19th century female explorer, who traveled all by herself into the deepest West African jungle and loved every life-threatening moment of it, be it sudden lone encounters with crocodiles and leopards, or staying for the night in a cannibal village.

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