Abstract
[Extract] Housebound as a child to nurse her ailing mother, Mary Kingsley's only escape were the books in her father's library, books about explorations in Africa. At the age of 30, after her parents had just died in quick succession, she was finally free. She left for West Africa, expecting to die there. Luckily for us, she did not die; she travelled along the west coast of Africa, meticulously recording her observations, encounters and experiences resulting in her first book, the now classic Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons (1897).
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