Armed with letters from the Colonial Office and a free passage from the shipping line, Mary Gaunt set out alone along the West African coast. She visits the groundnut colony of the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Guinea coast and the Gold Coast, and walks inland by moonlight to Akuse and the Volta, with the colonial attitudes of 1912 on every page.
A bold woman traveller’s account of colonial West Africa just before the First World War. Download the free EPUB.