Full name: Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa

Author: Don Brown Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, Biographies, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780618369164 0618369163

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. Similar books: Teedie by Don Brown Mack Made Movies by Don Brown She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton I Dissent by Debbie Levy Rosa by Nikki Giovanni Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh She Persisted Around the World by Chelsea Clinton The Oldest Student by Rita Lorraine Hubbard The Youngest Marcher by Cynthia Levinson The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter Planting Stories by Anika Aldamuy Denise Elizabeth Leads the Way by Tanya Lee Stone The Case for Loving by Selina Alko Our Children Can Soar by Michelle Cook Mama Miti by Donna Jo Napoli Fifty Cents and a Dream by Jabari Asim Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Jonah Winter The Book Itch by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson Magic Ramen by Andrea Wang Planting the Trees of Kenya by Claire A. Nivola