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Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa

By Don Brown

Book information

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Year
2003
ISBN
0618002731, 0618369163
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
13 MB (13312522 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-03-16 09:01:06
Biography & Autobiography; Juvenile Nonfiction; JN

Description

Mary Kingsley spent her childhood in a small house on a lonely lane outside London, England. Her mother was bedridden, her father rarely home, and Mary served as housekeeper, handyman, nursemaid, and servant. Not until she was thirty years old did Mary get her chance to explore the world she'd read about in her father's library. In 1893, she arrived in West Africa, where she encountered giant Xying insects, crocodiles, hippos, and brutal heat. Mary endured the hardships of the equatorial country—and thrived.

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