Uncommon traveler : Mary Kingsley in Africa /
Mary Kingsley in Africa
written and illustrated by Don Brown.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [2000] �2000.
- p. : col. ill ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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A brief biography of the self-educated nineteenth-century Englishwoman who, after a secluded childhood and youth, traveled alone through unexplored West Africa in 1893 and 1894 and learned much about the area and its inhabitants.
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