A Hippo Banquet

A Hippo Banquet
de Mary Kingsley

Colecção: Penguin Little Black Classics: 32
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2015
9780141397283
64 pp.


"While engaged on this hunt I felt the earth quiver under my feet, and heard a soft big soughing sound, and looking round saw I had dropped in on a hippo banquet..."

Told with verve and self-mocking wit, the adventures of doughty female Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley describe stumbling upon five hippos by night, dodging elephants and fighting off a leopard with a stool.