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Ricca, Brad.
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Temple, O. (Olive), 1880-1936 -- Travel -- Africa.
Temple, O. (Olive), 1880-1936 -- Correspondence.
Alexander, Boyd, 1873-1910 -- Correspondence.
Temple, O. (Olive), 1880-1936 -- Friends and associates.
Talbot, Percy Amaury, 1877-1945 -- Travel -- Africa.
Women explorers -- Africa -- Biography.
Africa -- Description and travel.
Africa -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
London (England) -- Biography.
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Ricca, Brad.
Temple, O. (Olive), 1880-1936 -- Travel -- Africa.
Temple, O. (Olive), 1880-1936 -- Correspondence.
Alexander, Boyd, 1873-1910 -- Correspondence.
Temple, O. (Olive), 1880-1936 -- Friends and associates.
Talbot, Percy Amaury, 1877-1945 -- Travel -- Africa.
Women explorers -- Africa -- Biography.
Africa -- Description and travel.
Africa -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
London (England) -- Biography.
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Olive the Lionheart : lost love, imperial spies, and one woman's journey into the heart of Africa / Brad Ricca.
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Ricca, Brad.
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2020.
Call #:
910
.92
T284r
Subjects
Temple, O. (Olive), 1880-1936 -- Travel -- Africa.
Temple, O. (Olive), 1880-1936 -- Correspondence.
Alexander, Boyd, 1873-1910 -- Correspondence.
Temple, O. (Olive), 1880-1936 -- Friends and associates.
Talbot, Percy Amaury, 1877-1945 -- Travel -- Africa.
Women explorers -- Africa -- Biography.
Africa -- Description and travel.
Africa -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
London (England) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781250207012 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Olive the Lion Heart : lost love, imperial spies, and one woman's journey into the heart of Africa
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xiv, 381 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; ill. : 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"A true story of a woman's quest to Africa in the 1900s to find her missing fiancé, and the adventure that ensues. In 1910, Olive MacLeod, a thirty-year-old, redheaded Scottish aristocrat, received word that her fiancé, the famous naturalist Boyd Alexander, was missing in Africa. So she went to find him. Olive the Lionheart is the thrilling true story of her astonishing journey. In jungles, swamps, cities, and deserts, Olive and her two companions, the Talbots, come face-to-face with cobras and crocodiles, wise native chiefs, a murderous leopard cult, a haunted forest, and even two adorable lion cubs that she adopts as her own. Making her way in a pair of ill-fitting boots, Olive awakens to the many forces around her, from shadowy colonial powers to an invisible Islamic warlord who may hold the key to Boyd's disappearance. As these secrets begin to unravel, all of Olive's assumptions prove wrong and she is forced to confront the darkest, most shocking secret of all: why she really came to Africa in the first place. Drawing on Olive's own letters and secret diaries, Olive the Lionheart is a love story that defies all boundaries, set against the backdrop of a beautiful, unconquerable Africa."--From publisher.
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