Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa

Description: This biography tells the story of the self-educated 19th-century Englishwoman who traveled alone through unexplored West Africa and learned much about the area and its inhabitants. Full color.

Brief description:

Don Brown is the winner of the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Sibert Honor. He is the author and illustrator of many nonfiction graphic novels for teens and picture book biographies. He has been widely praised for his resonant storytelling and his delicate watercolor paintings that evoke the excitement, humor, pain, and joy of lives lived with passion. School Library Journal has called him "a current pacesetter who has put the finishing touches on the standards for storyographies." He lives in New York with his family.

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Review Quotes:

"A grand introduction to the woman and an inspiring story about perseverance, this is an uncommonly good book about an uncommon traveler." --Booklist, starred review (7/00) Booklist, ALA, Starred Review

"Brown brings each detail to life through vivid imagery." --The Bulletin, starred review (7-8/00) The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Starred

"Readers will welcome Brown's unflappable Mary Kingsley to the growing number of picture books about newly-recognized female explorers." --Horn Book, starred review (Sept/Oct 2000) Horn Book, Starred

"Brown manages to get a lot into a few graceful vignettes, and he does the same with his watercolors, using a blue-green and gold-brown palette to evoke London and jungle, desert and heat." --Kirkus Reviews (6/15/00) Kirkus Reviews

"Mary emerges as an intrepid and admirable character." --Publishers Weekly (8/21/00) Publishers Weekly