Travels in West Africa

Kingsley, Mary

''Go and learn your tropics', said Science. Where on earth am I to go, I wondered, for tropics are tropics wherever found, so I got down an atlas and saw that either South America. or West Africa must be my destination' (the author in 1894), before two trips to learn her tropics; edited and introduced by Elspeth Huxley; illustrated.

Publisher: The Folio Society. First English edition thus 1976
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper in original slipcase.


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