Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0618369163
ISBN 13
9780618369164
Category
LEVEL M NON FICTION
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Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Pages
32
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. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
