Mary Henrietta Kingsley
1862-1900
English traveler who ventured to remote areas of Africa and nearby islands, collecting information to complete an unfinished book by her deceased father, George Henry...
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Mary Kingsley
Born October 13, 1862, Cambridge, England Died June 3, 1900, Simontown, South Africa
Mary Kingsley was born in Cambridge, England, on October 13, 1862, into a prominent British family....
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Mary Henrietta Kingsley--traveler, writer, and political activist--discovered no new territory, but she brought West African culture and politics to the attention of late-nineteenth-century British re...
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The scientific studies of Mary Kingsley (1862-1900) added much to European knowledge of African wildlife. She brought back one previously unknown species of fish, six new subspecies that had not been ...
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Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Mary Kingsley
Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Mary Kingsley