Travels in West Africa (Everyman's Library)

This superb autobiographical classic recounts the remarkable journeys undertaken by a sheltered Victorian woman who ventured alone into the territory of known cannibals in order to continue her father's studies in West Africa. She made two journeys to West Africa: the first in 1893 at the age of thirty-one, and the second in 1894-5. First published in 1897, this account was an immediate success.