num_pages: 114
description: Contemptuous of Europe's 'civilising mission' in Africa Mary Kingsley's (1862-1900) extraordinary journeys through tropical west Africa are a remarkable record both of a world which has vanished and of a writer and explorer of immense bravery wit and humanity. Paddling through mangrove swamps fending off crocodiles climbing Mount Cameroon Kingsley is both admirable and funny.
language: English
title: The Congo and the Cameroons
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd