Explore with Mary Kingsley

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Meet the Boss Mary Kingsley was a writer and explorer who traveled to Africa alone unheard of for a woman at that time Her books challenged European views of Africa shining a light on the mistreatment of Native peoples in British colonies Did you know Mary's father George was a doctor who accompanied explorers on their journeys to Africa Mary inherited her love of Africa from her father ARMCHAIR EXPLORER Follows her father’s travels Reads about explorers Mary Kingsley was born in 1862 in London England Her father Dr George Kingsley spent much of Mary’s childhood traveling to faraway places including Africa Mary longed to follow in his footsteps She read everything she could find in her father’s library She read newspaper accounts of Henry Stanley’s search for David Livingstone and their meeting in Africa in1871 above 4 TRAVEL WITH THE GREAT EXPLORERS A YOUNG NURSE Mother is an invalid Father gets sick too In 1888 Mary's mother had a stroke Although Mary had no nursing training she took care of her mother 24 hours a day When her father’s heart grew weak she took care of him too Her father died on February 2 1892 Her mother died just 10 weeks later