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"Three women - daughter, mother, aunt - abandon their pampered, privileged lives in The Hague of the 1860s, to set off on an epic journey to the heart of Africa. Since the daughter, Alexine, has inherited a vast fortune from her mysterious tycoon father, the women take with them the family butler and nurse and each her own personal maid. In Cairo they recruit a staff of more than a hundred." "The male explorers of the day at first mock so audacious a trespass into what has previously been an almost exclusively male preserve. Then they begin to accord the trio a grudging admiration for their initiative, courage and endurance. Had she been born into a different class, the mother might have made a successful career as a concert pianist. The aunt, unmarried, once had an unhappy love-affair with Tsar Alexander II." "The travellers go through a series of now exhilarating, now bizarre and now terrifying adventures, as indomitably they push on with what becomes an exploration not merely of uncharted Africa but of their own innermost selves. Eventually tragedy engulfs each of them in turn."--BOOK JACKET.

Author

Francis Henry King

Publisher

Arcadia Books Ltd

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781900850551

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

3.43 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14