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Author:

Brown, Don, 1949-

Title:

Uncommon traveler : Mary Kingsley in Africa / written and illustrated by Don Brown.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

1 v. unpaged.

Subject:

Kingsley, Mary Henrietta--1862-1900.
Kingsley, Mary Henrietta--1862-1900.--Juvenile literature.
Women--Biography.
Explorers.
Explorers.--Great Britain--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Explorers.--Africa, West--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Women explorers--Great Britain--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Women explorers--Africa, West--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Africa, West--Discovery and exploration.
Africa, West--British--British--Juvenile literature.

Summary:

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.

Indexed by:

Horn Bk Sep 2000.
BCCB Recommended.
Kirkus 06/15/2000.
PW 08/21/2000.
SLJ Sep 2000.
Bklst 07/01/2000.

ISBN:

0618002731
9780618002733

Locations:

LPPC815 -- Lake View Public Library (Lake View)