MARY HENRIETTA KINGSLEY
Name: Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Born: 1862 London, England
Mary Kingsley's sheltered upbringing made her the most unlikely of African
explorers. But after her parents' death, she decided to complete her father's
research of "primitive religion and law", which meant she had to travel to West
Africa, then an area few Europeans visited, never mind a woman travelling on her
own! Read more about Kingsley's adventures... She climbed Mount Cameroon
and journeyed through Nigeria, Gabon, Angola, and Cameroon—always in the
voluminous clothes of the late Victorian era. She contracted typhoid and died while
nursing soldiers in South Africa during the Boer War.
Name: Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Born: 1862 London, England
Mary Kingsley's sheltered upbringing made her the most unlikely of African
explorers. But after her parents' death, she decided to complete her father's
research of "primitive religion and law", which meant she had to travel to West
Africa, then an area few Europeans visited, never mind a woman travelling on her
own! Read more about Kingsley's adventures... She climbed Mount Cameroon
and journeyed through Nigeria, Gabon, Angola, and Cameroon—always in the
voluminous clothes of the late Victorian era. She contracted typhoid and died while
nursing soldiers in South Africa during the Boer War.