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Herbert's first book, The Explorer's Daughter, was published by Penguin Books in 2005, and was chosen as "Book of the Week" by BBC Radio 4 and translated into several languages. She has had several further books published, inclucing Explorers' Sketchbooks , co-authored with her husband Huw Lewis-Jones, Heart of the Hero: The Remarkable Women ...
Photographers, explorers, marketers, naturalists and authors, Martin and Osa studied the wildlife and peoples of East and Central Africa, the South Pacific Islands and British North Borneo. They explored then-unknown lands and brought back film footage and photographs, offering many Americans their first understanding of these distant lands.
Bancroft was born in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, [2] and grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. [3] Bancroft spent two years in Kenya in her fifth and sixth grades. [2] Bancroft began leading wilderness expeditions when she was 8 years old when she convinced her cousins to join her on backyard expeditions. [2]
Growing up in Calcutta, however, Queenie is made all too aware of her "chee-chee" (mixed) background by her enemies, specifically wealthy Prunella Rumsey. One of Prunella's mother's lovers, however, is Queenie's uncle, Morgan Jones. When their affair is discovered by Sir Burton Rumsey, he fires Jones from his musician position at the cricket club.
Gladys Maude Winifred Mitchell (21 April 1901 – 27 July 1983) was an English writer best known for her creation of Mrs Bradley, the heroine of 66 detective novels.She also wrote under the pseudonyms Stephen Hockaby and Malcolm Torrie.
She was born in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, daughter of Rev. R. T. Meade, of Nohoval, County Cork. [1] She later moved to London, where she married Alfred Toulmin Smith in September 1879. She began writing at 17 and produced over 280 books in her lifetime, [ 2 ] being so prolific that no fewer than eleven new titles under her byline appeared ...
Isabella Macdonald Alden (nickname and pen name, Pansy; November 3, 1841 – August 5, 1930) was an American author.Her best known works were: Four Girls at Chautauqua, Chautauqua Girls at Home, Tip Lewis and his Lamp, Three People, Links in Rebecca's Life, Julia Ried, Ruth Erskine's Crosses, The King's Daughter, The Browning Boys, From Different Standpoints, Mrs. Harry Harper's Awakening, The ...
The series takes the protagonist from the age of twelve to fifteen, from a pony novice to a prize-winning rider. [5] In the first book in the series, Jill's Gymkhana, Jill's father has recently died, and she moves with her mother to a small Pool Cottage near the fictional village of Chatton. Her mother hopes to support them both as a children's ...