An inspiring story of Mary Kingsley in Africa, raised alone by a sickly mother while her adventurous father, a doctor, traveled the world. She rarely if ever left her house or garden but learned to read from her father's library of books that he would bring back from his travels. After her parents passed away she left England in the 1800s and traveled, often alone, through dangerous and rough terrain, to visit the peoples of Africa. Of course she is deemed crazy by the people in England from where she hales.

I would love to read an adult version of her life and ever her autobiography, "Travels in West Africa."