Research Catalog

Title

Travels in West Africa : Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons / by Mary H. Kingsley ; with illustrations.

Author

Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900

Publication

London : Macmillian and Co., Limited ; New York : The Macmillian Company, 1897.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Günther, Albert C. L. G. (Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf), 1830-1914.
• Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell), 1844-1912.
• Macmillan & Co., publisher
• Richard Clay and Sons, printer

Description

xvi, 743, [1] pages, [18] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

• Ethnology > Africa, West
• Folklore > Africa, West
• Ethnology > Africa
• Folklore > Africa
• Fetishism
• Africa, West > Description and travel
• Africa, West > Social life and customs
• Congo (Democratic Republic) > Description and travel
• Corisco (Equatorial Guinea) > Description and travel
• Cameroon > Description and travel

Genre/Form

• Publisher's advertisements – England – London.
• Bookplates (Provenance)

Note

• With a half-title.
• Publisher's logo on verso of half-title page.
• "Richard Clay and Sons, Limited, London and Bungay."--printer statement, verso of title page.
• Includes index.
• "Dr. A. Günther on reptiles and fishes," pages [692]-717; "Orthoptera, Hymenoptera, and Hemiptera ... By W.F. Kirby," pages [718]-733.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Introduction -- Liverpool to Sierra Leone -- The Gold Coast -- Fernando Po and the Bubis -- Lagos bar -- Voyage down coast -- Libreville and glass -- The Ogowé -- Talagouga -- The rapids of the Ogowé -- Lembarene -- From Kangwe to Lake Ncovi -- From Ncovi to Esoon -- From Esoon to Agonjo -- Bush trade and fan customs -- Down the Rembwé -- Congo Français -- The log of the Lafayette -- From Corsico to Gaboon -- Fetish -- Fetish (continued) -- Fetish (continued) -- Fetish (continued) -- Fetish (continued) -- Ascent of the great peak of Cameroons -- Ascent of the greak peak of Cameroons (continued) -- The great peak of Cameroons (continued) -- The greak peak of Cameroons (continued) -- The islands in the bay of Amboises -- Appendix I. Trade and labour in West Africa ; [Appendix] II. Disease in West Africa ; [Appendix] III. Dr. A. Günther on reptiles and fishes ; [Appendix] IV. Orthoptera, Hymenoptera, and Hemiptera ; [Appendix] V. The invention of the cloth loom -- Index.

Call Number

Sc 916.7-K (Kingsley, M. Travels in West Africa. 1897)

LCCN

17005282

OCLC

• 1990305
• NYPGR1990305-B

Author

Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900, author.

Title

Travels in West Africa : Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons / by Mary H. Kingsley ; with illustrations.

Publisher

London : Macmillian and Co., Limited ; New York : The Macmillian Company, 1897.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc 916.7-K (accession no. B513246) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc 917.6-K includes 8 pages of publisher's advertisements at end.

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Added Author

Günther, Albert C. L. G. (Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf), 1830-1914. Dr. A. Günther on reptiles and fishes.

Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell), 1844-1912. Orthoptera, Hymenoptera, and Hemiptera.

Macmillan & Co., publisher.

Richard Clay and Sons, printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc 916.7-K (Kingsley, M. Travels in West Africa. 1897)