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Travels in West Africa
Mary H. Kingsley

BiblioBazaar, 2006

It was in 1893 that, for the first time in my life, I found myself in possession of five or six months which were not heavily forestalled, and feeling like a boy with a new half-crown, I lay about in my mind, as Mr. Bunyan would say, as to what to do with them.

Sabrina

1 review
Mary Kingsley

Zebra, 1993

Good Reading
Sabrina only wanted to find her long lost family not to seek any part of their vast fortune. But the Duke Oliver Carrick thought the worst of her. When the dowager duchess pressed her to marry the duke, Sabrina had already lost her heart to him. But the duke wanted none of it or so he thought.... A great little love story.

Travels in West Africa

10 reviews
Mary H. Kingsley

Dover Publications, 2003

A classic
Mary Kingsley's "Travels in West Africa" has become a classic, and deservedly so. Her story is remarkable. In the 1890s, unmarried and no longer having to care for her parents, Kingsley decides she should travel in "the tropics" and sets off for "West Africa" (i.e., the West coast of Central Africa). She travels as a scientist, collecting fish specimens, and finances her travels by trading along ...

Marrying Miss Bumblebroth

8 reviews
Kingsley Mary

Zebra, 2002

WONDERFULLY DIFFERENT!
This is one of the sweetest and most tender love stories I've ever read. Chloe is awkward and outspoken, Michael is confident and self-assured. He needs her money and she needs a husband. But the love that grows in their marriage is breathtaking. He is unfailingly kind to her and shows her the greatest affection and tenderness. She is completely in love with him. This book doesn't follow ...

Masquerade
Mary Kingsley

Topaz, 1997

An exchange of glances with a condemned man about to be hanged in a London square unites Blythe Marden's fate with that of an actor framed for a murder, who takes Blythe on a quest for freedom. Original."

A Regency Valentine

5 reviews
Mary Balogh, Joan Wolf, ...

Signet, 1991

a great Regency anthology.....
most anthologies I've read fall into the 50 percent or lower catagory. Meaning half, mostly even less, of the stories in the anthology are even readable. Not so in this book. Of the five stories, 2 were great (wolf and Rice's), 2 very good (Balogh and Kingsley) and only the Lange story didn't appeal to me. Surprisingly Miss Balogh's story was not up to her usual standard-but still good. ...

The Congo and the Cameroons (Penguin Great Journeys)
Mary Kingsley

Penguin Classics, 2007

Contemptuous of Europe's 'civilising mission' in Africa, Mary Kingsley's (1862-1900) extraordinary journeys through tropical west Africa are a remarkable record, both of a world which has vanished and of a writer and explorer of immense bravery, wit and humanity. Paddling through mangrove swamps, fending off crocodiles, climbing Mount Cameroon, Kingsley is both admirable and funny. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet ...

MGA 8: Travels in West Africa (MyEclectica Great Adventures)

MyEclectica.com, 2008

Mary Henrietta Kingsley was an English writer and explorer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and African people. Mary Henrietta Kingsley was an English writer and explorer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and African people. Mary arrived in Luanda in Angola in August 1893. She lived with local people who taught her necessary skills for surviving in the African jungles. She travelled by canoe up the Ogowe ...

Scandal's Lady (Zebra Regency Romance)

1 review
Mary Kingsley

Zebra, 1994

Good enough but not her best - a very nice read nonetheless
I seem to have read a few of Mary Kingsley's books just recently - I raided a UBS during my last visit to the USA and came away with a number of her older titles. This one was a satisfying but not particularly memorable read and suffered from a few little things which prevented it fulfilling the author's intentions. It is a story of a slightly soiled heroine reduced to governessing as a result ...

The Rake's Reward (Zebra Regency Romance)

1 review
Mary Kingsley

Zebra, 1991

A Lady's Dilemma, A Gentleman's Pleasure
Lady Cecily Randall was no green girl to be seduced by a handsome face. The eminently dutiful daughter of the Duke of Marlowe, she'd been groomed t make a suitable match. So when the rather humorless Marquess of Edgewater proposed, she accepted. She tried not to think about love and happily-ever-after...and she certainly forced from her mind all thoughts of the handsome stranger she'd encountered ...

A Maddening Minx

1 review
Mary Kingsley

Zebra, 1992

An early romance by a talented author
I picked up a copy of this at a UBS last winter and just finished reading it. I liked it, without doubt, though the latter parts of the book irritated me. Basically, it is the story of Philip Thornton, Marquess of Pembroke, widowed in circumstances which appear slightly sinister. He is, we learn, the victim of some worrying but undoubtedly contrived "accidents". Enter Sarah Chadwick, a ...

Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons
Mary H. Kingsley

IndyPublish.com, 2005

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