Pollard Memorial Library (Lowell)

Olive the Lionheart, lost love, imperial spies, and one woman's journey into the heart of Africa, Brad Ricca

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-564)

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non fiction

Olive the Lionheart

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1229187961

Brad Ricca

Thorndike Press large print biography and memoir

lost love, imperial spies, and one woman's journey into the heart of Africa

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--and her awakening to the real reason why she travelled 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

Dear reader -- Prologue -- The fairy flag -- The party girl and the naturalist -- Leviathan -- The arrival -- The protectorate -- A correspondence, Part 1 -- On the hunt -- The great Lambino -- Devil in the forest -- A correspondence, part 2 -- Into the swamp -- The two lakes -- The man-leopard -- A correspondence, part 3 -- A painting on a wall -- Fort Lamy -- A correspondence, part 4 -- The wanderer -- The great Gauaronga, part 1 -- The great Gauaronga, part 2 -- The French report -- Valkyrie -- The lake of loneliness -- The pilgrim to the stone -- The road -- Decision in Fika -- Poisoned arrow -- Mr. Charles Temple -- The fate of Olive MacLeod -- The lighthouse -- Epilogue: The last king of Dar Fur