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Mary Hall

(Hall, Mary, 1857-1912)

Mary-Hall is considered the first woman to have travelled from the tip of of the south of Africa to Cairo. She used a boat and took maffi. She became a member of the Royal Geographical Society and published a book, A Woman's Trek from the Cape to Cairo, about her journey described with a route map. Dates guessed at 1907

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Hall, Mary, 1857-1912 -- Travel

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Filed under: Hall, Mary, 1857-1912 -- Travel -- Africa, Eastern

A Woman's Trek From the Cape to Cairo (inscribed by the author; London: Methuen and Co., ca. 1907), by Mary Hall (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by Mary Hall:

Hall, Mary, 1857-1912: A Woman in the Antipodes and in the Far East (London: Methuen and Co., c1914) (multiple formats at archive.org)
Hall, Mary, 1857-1912: A Woman's Trek From the Cape to Cairo (inscribed by the author; London: Methuen and Co., ca. 1907) (page images at HathiTrust)

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