Mary Kingsley

By Dea Birkett

Victorian traveller Mary Kingsley has been portrayed as a victim of nineteenth-century attitudes towards women, a brave and daring explorer, an anti-imperialist agitator and even a feminist heroine. In this challenging and controversial new biography, Dea Birkett breaks through the shallow clichs which have defined this extraordinary female figure to frame a new image of the traveller as actively constructing her own history. For the first time, Mary Kingsley is seen as responding to and part of her time.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333489209
• ISBN13: 9780333489208
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"