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Death of Mary Kingsley.(explorer of West Africa)(Brief Article)
From: History Today
Date: 20000601
Author:Cavendish, Richard
June 3rd, 1900
CHARACTER, COURAGE and the absence of her family made Mary Kingsley a pioneer explorer of West Africa. Her doctor father, George Kingsley, (brother of the much better known novelist Charles Kingsley,) was a dedicated traveller. Mary grew up looking after her invalid mother and was almost entirely self-educated. Her parents' deaths and her useless only brother's departure for the Far East in the 1890s left her free in her thirties to defy convention and undertake journeys in which she penetrated parts of Africa that no white had ever reached. Primly dressed in ...
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