A new critical edition of Mungo Park's TRAVELS (first published in 1799) that places it within the context of postcolonial discourse as well as cultural studies in general.

A celebrated two-volume geography and ethnography of southern Africa in 1811-15, by a British botanist, originally published 1822-4.

As a dutiful Victorian daughter, the author was thirty before being freed (by her parents' deaths) to do as she chose. She went to West Africa in 1893 and again in 1895, to investigate the beliefs and customs of the inland tribes and also to collect zoological specimens. She was appalled by the 'thin veneer of rubbishy white culture' imposed by British officials and was not afraid to say so.