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041			_aeng
050			_aDT 472 K533
100			_aKingsley, M. H.
245		0	_aTravels in West Africa : _bCongo Francais, Corisco & Cameroons _cMary H. Kingsley
250			_a3rd ed.
260			_aLondon _bFrank Cass & Co. Ltd. _c1965
300			_axxvi, 743 p. _c24 cm.
520			_aAs a dutiful Victorian daughter, the author was thirty before being freed (by her parents' deaths) to do as she chose. She went to West Africa in 1893 and again in 1895, to investigate the beliefs and customs of the inland tribes and also to collect zoological specimens. She was appalled by the 'thin veneer of rubbishy white culture' imposed by British officials and was not afraid to say so.
650			_aTourism
650			_aTravel
650			_aWest Africa
942			_cBK
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