A spirited, witty, enthralling account of a young woman's recent exploration of the equatorial African country of Gabon, as she retraces the steps of a journey made in 1895 by Mary Kingsley, author of the classic volume, Travels in West Africa.
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A spirited, witty, enthralling account of a young woman's recent exploration of the equatorial African country of Gabon, as she retraces the steps of a journey made in 1895 by Mary Kingsley, author of the classic volume, Travels in West Africa.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Jacket has light edgewear. Boards have only minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in NEAR FINE Condition. No Jacket. Green quarter cloth w/gilt titles, tan paper-wrapped boards; very clean nd unmarked, spine lightly sunned. Interior is in Fine Condition--very clean pages, completely unmarked. Caroline Alexander set out to explore the equatorial African country of Gabon, retracing the steps of the journey made in 1895 by Mary Kingsley, author of the classic "Travels in West Africa". She made her way deep into the interior, through the same mud-hut villages, the same streches of water-ways, rain forests, and empty savannah, before breaking into new territory that had been virtually unreachable a century before. Contact with the past gave way to experiences that might have amazed even Miss Kingsley: side-trips directed-or misdirected-by 'expert' guides; adventuress and misadventures with the Gabonese and the expatriates living among them; and a visit to the majestic Chief Josephine. An enthralling account, in which Alexander illuminates the differences between the experiences of the earlier visitors and her own, differences that speak of the gains losses of a century of haphazard modernization. 290 pages. 8.5 x 5.8 inches. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1990.
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Very Good in Near Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 290, (2) pp. The two lower fore-corners are bumped. The jacket is lightly scuffed at the head and foot of the spine. Travels in Gabon, in west central Africa.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First American edition. 290pp. White paint smudge on bottom edges of boards (most likely from a painted shelf), very good in a very good dustwrapper with light internal foxing.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Stated First American Edition. Fine/Fine. Very clean beige boards with clean green cloth spine with gold lettering on spine. No bumping, no wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 290 pgs. with bibliography. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, not price clipped, no wear, no tears. As new book and dustjacket. Jacket enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Africa.