HELLO TO THE CANNIBALS BOOK, GRIPPING ADVENTURE NOVEL

HELLO TO THE CANNIBALS

First Edition Book Written by Richard Bausch

"My heart stopped peacefully; its beating grew slow and weak, and then just - stopped. I died young. There is, really, only a little to tell."

And so ended, in 1900 the short but remarkable life of explorer and writer Mary Henrietta Kinglsey, most of which was spent caring for her ailing mother, and attending to the business of her world wandering father. But the moment she was unencumbered, she set out on her own journey of discovery. Blithely ignoring the narrowly circumscribed roles and rules for a young woman of her day, she traveled along to West Africa and went to places no European had ever been.

"Oh, silent friend, if you ever come to read this . . . I am in Africa. Soon I will be walking inland, heading to places unknown."

It is almost a hundred years later, on her fourteenth birthday that Lily Austin first hears the name of Mary Kingsley, the only female face in a book full of male adventurers. That night, as an ice storm rages outside, something awful and unexpected befalls Lily; and this is why, as she matures into a young woman, it is to the writings of Kingsley that she returns again and again for solace and comfort - which she finds, especially, in a secreat cache if intimate letters Kingsley wrote to an unamed woman in the distant future. Lily, the child of professional actors, begins to write a play about Kingsley.

A triumph to the imagination, Hello to the Cannibals is Richard Bausch's most dazzling and beautifully crafted novel to date.

• Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket
• Former Library Book Covered in Plastic
• Size 17cm W x 24cm H
• 661 Pages in Good Condition

ISBN 006019295X

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