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Don Brown - Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley In Africa
 

Don Brown - Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley In Africa

A portrait of the Victorian ethnologist, writer, and nurse chronicles her lonely coming-of-age years spent as a housemaid to a bedridden mother and absent father and recounts her groundbreaking achievement in 1890s equatorial Africa. Reprint.

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Mary Kingsley

byjpolhemus Jan 12, 2010
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Pros An amazing book that brings to life an amazing woman!
Cons None
Recommended it? Yes

Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa is truly an inspiring story, making it a must-have illustrated children's book for home and school libraries.

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Product Details and Features

Key Information

Authors Don Brown
Fiction Genre Biography & Autobiography • History

Professional Reviews

Book: "Expressive watercolors contrast her grim early years with her adventures in West Africa in this well-crafted introduction to a daring woman."

Book Editions

PaperbackReprint32August 25, 2003Sandpiper9.5"(h) x 9.75"(w) x 0.15"(d), 0.35 lbs.9780618369164

First Line

In 1870, a small house stood on a lonely lane outside London, England.
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