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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 381 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations : 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250207012
  • 1250207010
Other title:
  • Olive the Lion Heart
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Contents:
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.
Summary: "'Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full of adventure and acts of courage, it's hard to believe she actually lived. And yet she did! Brad Ricca has found a heroine for the ages, and written her tale with a winning combination of accuracy and imagination.' --author Paula McLain. From the Edgar-nominated author of the bestselling 'Mrs. Sherlock Holmes' comes the 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full of adventure and acts of courage, it's hard to believe she actually lived. And yet she did! Brad Ricca has found a heroine for the ages, and written her tale with a winning combination of accuracy and imagination." -- Paula McLain, author of Love and Ruin and The Paris Wife

From the Edgar-nominated author of the bestselling Mrs. Sherlock Holmes comes the 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.

This book is not for sale in the United Kingdom.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"'Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full of adventure and acts of courage, it's hard to believe she actually lived. And yet she did! Brad Ricca has found a heroine for the ages, and written her tale with a winning combination of accuracy and imagination.' --author Paula McLain. From the Edgar-nominated author of the bestselling 'Mrs. Sherlock Holmes' comes the 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

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