Becoming Jane Eyre by Sheila Kohler

Becoming Jane Eyre by Sheila Kohler

Author:Sheila Kohler
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
Published: 2010-02-12T22:20:02.265000+00:00


CHAPTER NINETEEN

Branwell

Writing in her room, Charlotte hears her sister and brother return. She still misses Angria, the imaginary world of her adolescence that she shared with him. She remembers the excitement of discovering a new place, as Mungo Park had just done in West Africa. The very word Africa was thrilling: thick vegetation, brilliant light, the burning amber eyes of a lion in thick foliage, forgotten palaces of diamonds and gold. She still remembers the map in Blackwood’s magazine with the account of Park’s voyages of discovery: the long-sought River Niger at Segu, Silla, Bamako, and Kamalia, where he fell ill and owed his life to a stranger, first taken for dead and then returned in triumph to his wife and a huge audience in London. She whispers the names aloud: the province of Ardrah, the Calabar and Etrei rivers, the Kingdom of the Ashantee. The Kingdom of the Twelve. The Angrian Wars.



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