Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa
by Don Brown (Author)
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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Publishers Weekly
"Brown again trolls feminist history for an engaging heroine, this time the redoubtable British explorer Mary Kingsley," wrote PW. The woman who set off to see the wilds of West Africa in 1892, at age 30, emerges as "an intrepid and admirable character." Ages 4-8. (Aug.) Copyright 2003 Publishers Weekly Used with permission.
Don Brown
Don Brown is the award-winning author and illustrator of many picture book biographies. He has been widely praised for his resonant storytelling and his delicate watercolor paintings that evoke the excitement, humor, pain, and joy of lives lived with passion. School Library Journal has called him "a current pacesetter who has put the finishing touches on the standards for storyographies." He lives in New York with his family.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780618369164
Lexile Measure
770
Guided Reading Level
M
Publisher
Clarion Books
Publication date
August 20, 2003
Series
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BISAC categories
JNF007020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Historical
Library of Congress categories
Great Britain
Women
British
Africa, West
Explorers
Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
Women explorers
Discovery and exploration
Women
British
Africa, West
Explorers
Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
Women explorers
Discovery and exploration
