Book Detail
Uncommon Traveler |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Brown, Don | Illustrator: Brown, Don |
| Title: Uncommon Traveler | Date: 2000 |
| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin | City: Boston |
| ISBN, paperback: 0-618-00273-1 | ISBN, hardback: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: |
| Family: Yes | Young Adult: |
| Picture: Yes | |
General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): biography and autobiography, true story | |
HSE Descriptor(s): social studies |
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Summary: |
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| Mary Kingsley, who grew up in Victorian England, isolated, without formal education but with her Father's library, made trips to explore West Africa, where she accomplished many firsts and survived many adventures. The beautiful watercolor illustrations, biographical and bibliographical information enhance the attractiveness of this biography. | |
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| Mary Kingsley's secluded early life does not prepare the reader for her plucky adventures in West Africa. The web sites below enlarge the picture of her early life as she listened to and helped her father who was himself an early cultural anthropologist: www.enchangedlearning.com/explorers/page/kingsley.shtml, www2.gorp.com/advanlib/books/travelswafrica.htm, and www.nbb.cornell.edu/neurobio/MMMMKHrets.html. Students may want to explore in discussion and/or writing what in her early life motivated and prepared her for her African journeys. How and why did the author become interested in Mary? What barriers to women did she overcome? Students will also want to trace her travels on maps. The book can be paired with Place's tale The Last Giants to provide material for a discussion of colonialism/imperialism. schooldiscovery.com/homeworkhelp/worldbook/atozgeography/k/301250.html; www2.gorp.com/advenlib/books/travelMaryK.htm | |
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