Uncommon Traveler
Mary Kingsley in Africa
by Don Brown
Popularity 8
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.
Africa, juvenile literatureAfrica, description and travelAfricaWomen, biographyWomen explorersBritishWomenJuvenile literatureExplorersBiographyDiscovery and explorationKingsley, mary henrietta, 1862-1900