by Cristina Morató · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497931601
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«Las reinas de África» is the historical-biographical essay by Cristina Morató, published by Debolsillo in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
Cristina Morató brings together the portraits and anecdotes of eleven women who travelled and explored Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: explorers' wives, missionaries, aristocrats and adventurers who defied the conventions of their time. Among them are Mary Livingstone, Mary Kingsley, Karen Blixen and Beryl Markham. The book reconstructs their expeditions, their lives in inhospitable regions and the mark they left on the continent, through a journey across the most legendary Africa.
The work belongs to the Best Seller collection from Debolsillo. The subtitle of the work is «Viajeras y exploradoras por el continente negro».
Recommended for readers interested in biographies of women, the history of exploration and travel literature about Africa.
