A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley

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Houghton Mifflin, 1986 - Biography & Autobiography - 333 pages
Map on lining papers. A biography of the Victorian explorergeographer, scientist, and author of travel books on West Africa.

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The Kingsley Family
3
Inner and Outer Worlds
19
Changes
34
Copyright

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About the author (1986)

Katherine Frank's most recent biography, "A Passage to Egypt: The Life of Lucie Duff Gordon", earned a rave front-page review in the "New York Times Book Review". Frank is also the author of "A Voyager Out", a life of Mary Kingsley, & "A Chainless Soul", a life of Emily Bronte, which was hailed by New York Daily News. Her work on "Indira" involved six years of extensive travel & research.

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