This book examines the dynamics and impact of maritime trade in Lagos during the cycles of boom and slump in the first half of the twentieth century, the heyday

Great Victorian scholar-adventurer recounts long journey to British diplomatic post at Fernando Po, expeditions to African mainland. Invaluable descriptions of

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