In her breathtaking, enlightening and uproariously amusing autobiographical report Mary Kingsley tells just about her expedition into the deepest West African jungle, an unheard-of undertaking for a Nineteenth century British woman travelling on her own. It was an adventure full of life-threatening episodes, from abrupt lone encounters with crocodiles and leopards to staying for the night in a man eater village - and, "convinced that it was about as safe and far much amusing to be born lucky than wise," she admired every moment of it. Mary Kingsley was besides a keen and colour blind observer, and her book provides us not only with entertainment, but besides with exceptional insights into Nineteenth century African social group societies, as well as into the mentality and the lives of the European settlers and colonists.

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