Travels in West Africa: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Travels in West Africa, credited to Mary H. Kingsley, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Travels in West Africa, by Mary H. Kingsley. Read by Kehinde. Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an British explorer and writer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and its people. Kingsley was an outspoken critic of European colonialism, a champion for indigenous customs, and a dedicated campaigner for a revised British policy which supported traders and merchants over the needs of settlers and missionaries. Her adventures were extraordinary and fascinating. Among other things she fought with crocodiles, fell into native spear traps and was caught in a tornado on the slopes of Mount Cameroon. She traveled in West Africa wearing the same clothes she always wore in England: long, black, trailing skirts, tight waists, high collars and a small fur cap. These same clothes saved her life when she fell into a game pit, the many petticoats protecting her from being impaled on the stakes below. This is her story in her own words of her adventures and the people and culture of West Africa. (Summary by Kehinde)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Travels in West Africa
• Author credits: Mary H. Kingsley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 20:08:08

Catalogue topics

• Travel
• adventure
• nonfiction
• non-fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 00 - Preface & Introduction — 33:12
2. 01 - Liverpool to Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast — 44:04
3. 02 - Fernando Po and the Bubis — 1:04:37
4. 03 - Voyage Down Coast — 31:33
5. 04 - The Ogowe — 1:08:08
6. 05 - The Rapids of the Ogowe — 1:06:12
7. 06a - Lembarene, Part 1 — 43:59
8. 06b - Lembarene, Part 2 — 40:43
9. 07a - On the Way from Kangwe to Lake Ncovi, Part 1 — 32:52
10. 07b - On the Way from Kangwe to Lake Ncovi, Part 2 — 34:12
11. 08a - From Ncovi to Esoon, Part 1 — 35:29
12. 08b - From Ncovi to Esoon, Part 2 — 51:28
13. 09 - From Esoon to Ajongo — 33:58
14. 10 - Bush Trade and Fan Customs — 49:09
15. 11 - Down the Rembwe — 37:52
16. 12 - Fetish — 57:44
17. 13 - Fetish (cont.) — 47:51
18. 14 - Fetish (cont.) — 42:45
19. 15 - Fetish (cont.) — 37:19
20. 16 - Fetish (concluded) — 55:12
21. 17 - Ascent of the Great Peak of Cameroons — 33:42
22. 18 - The Great Peak of Cameroons (cont.) — 31:02
23. 19 - The Great Peak of Cameroons (cont.) — 21:10
24. 20 - The Great Peak of Cameroons (concluded) — 33:34

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