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Name: Uncommon Traveler
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Author: Don Brown

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.

First publish date: 2000

Authors: Don Brown

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