num_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.
language: English
title: Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa
titlecomplete: Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa
genres: Historical, History, Childrens, Geography, 19th Century, Picture Books, Travel, Africa, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 204
places: West Africa
publisher: Clarion Books