Uncommon traveler : Mary Kingsley in Africa

Resource Information

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Label

Uncommon traveler : Mary Kingsley in Africa

Title remainder

Mary Kingsley in Africa

Statement of responsibility

written and illustrated by Don Brown

Creator

• Brown, Don, 1949-

Subject

• Africa, West -- Discovery and exploration | British -- Juvenile literature
• Explorers
• Explorers -- Africa, West -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900
• Africa, West -- Discovery and exploration
• Women explorers -- Africa, West -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• Women explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• Women -- Biography

Genre

• Juvenile literature
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 916.604/312/092
• B

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• AD
• 550

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

LG

LC call number

DT476.23.K56

LC item number

B76 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Reading level

4.6

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

primary