However I was sworn to secrecy for reasons which this narrative will soon explain. Such injustice has galled me ever since my return from the trackless swamps of the upper Zambesi. The Royal Geographic Society might deign to acknowledge Mary Kingsley after the success of her publication, ‘Travels in West Africa’ but there is not one quarter-inch of a newspaper column recording my aunt’s achievements. My beloved aunt, Phyllis Charteris, has received none of the plaudits lavished on the laurel-garlanded heroes who explore the remote heart of Africa. Rider Haggard.Īn audio version is also available here via Far Fetched Fables, at District of WondersĪ Tale of Modern Women in the Dark Continent I decided it was time for a Suffragette take on H. We were invited to write a steampunk take on a classic of Victorian/Edwardian literature. You can comment here or there.įirst published in Resurrection Engines, an anthology of Scientific Romance published by Snowbooks, and edited by Scott Harrison.
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