Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195066722)

Mary Seacole was born a free black woman in Jamaica of the early 19th century. In her long and varied life, she was to travel in Central America, Russia and Europe, find work as a inn-keeper and as a doctress during the Crimean War, and become a famed heroine, the author of her own biography, in Britain. As this autobiography shows, Mary Seacole had a sharp instinct for hypocrisy as well as a ripe taste for sarcasm. Frequently we see her joyfully rise to mock the limitations artificially imposed on her as a black woman. She emerges from her writings as an individual with a most un-Victorian zest for travel, adventure and independence.

Author: Mary Seacole
ISBN-10: 0195066723
ISBN-13: 9780195066722
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 11/29/1990
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 5.50h x 8.40w x 0.60d