Uncommon traveler
Subtitle: Mary Kingsley in Africa
By: written and illustrated by Don Brown.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900 -- Juvenile literature.; Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900.; Explorers -- Africa, West -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Women explorers -- Africa, West -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Women explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Explorers.; Women -- Biography.; Africa, West -- Discovery and exploration -- British -- Juvenile literature.; Africa, West -- Discovery and exploration.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography; Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.