Title: Uncommon Traveler
Subtitle: Mary Kingsley in Africa
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.
Subjects: Africa, juvenile literature, Africa, description and travel, Africa, Women, biography, Women explorers, British, Women, Juvenile literature, Explorers, Biography, Discovery and exploration, Kingsley, mary henrietta, 1862-1900, Africa, west, New York Times reviewed
Places: West Africa, Great Britain
People: Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862-1900)