Mary Kingsley (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333489208)

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.

Author: Dea Birkett
ISBN-10: 0333489209
ISBN-13: 9780333489208
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/11/1992
Pages: 213
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d