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001			on1112255412
003			OCoLC
005			20200908135958.0
008			200423t20202020nyuaf b 001 0beng
010			_a 2020010731
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020			_a9781250207012 _qhardcover
020			_a1250207010 _qhardcover
035			_a(OCoLC)1112255412
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043			_af------ _ae-uk-en
092			_a916.0431 _bR489
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aRicca, Brad, _eauthor. _9229908
245	1	0	_aOlive the Lionheart : _blost love, imperial spies, and one woman's journey into the heart of Africa / _cBrad Ricca.
246	3		_aOlive the Lion Heart
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bSt. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, _c2020.
264		4	_c©2020
300			_axiv, 381 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; _billustrations : _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"'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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0		_aDear 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.
651		0	_aAfrica _xDescription and travel. _922089
600	1	0	_aTemple, O. _q(Olive), _d1880-1936 _xTravel _zAfrica.
600	1	0	_aTemple, O. _q(Olive), _d1880-1936 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aAlexander, Boyd, _d1873-1910 _vCorrespondence.
650		0	_aWomen explorers _zAfrica _vBiography.
651		0	_aAfrica _xSocial life and customs _y20th century.
600	1	0	_aTemple, O. _q(Olive), _d1880-1936 _xFriends and associates.
600	1	0	_aTalbot, Percy Amaury, _d1877-1945 _xTravel _zAfrica.
651		0	_aLondon (England) _vBiography.
655		7	_aPersonal correspondence. _2lcgft _9278845
655		7	_aTravel writing. _2lcgft _96889
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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