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One dry season
in the footsteps of Mary Kingsley
By Alexander, Caroline
- ISBN
- 978-0-39457-455-4
- Publisher
- New York : Knopf : 1990, c1989.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 15, 1989
Kingsley's Travels in West Africa (1897) still makes wonderfully entertaining reading; she is a hard act to follow. Although travel to Africa has shed its exoticism, it still offers plenty of challenges, and Alexander found her share in equatorial Gabon, retracing the route up the Ogooue River taken by Kingsley nearly 100 years ago. Weaving a narrative pattern...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
