A Voyager Out Author:Katherine Frank Mary Kingsley must be the most engaging heroine of surprise of the late Victorian world....She is a heroine English children have grown up on. In the United States she has been largely unknown. We meet in Mary Kingsley an unselfconscious heroine to add to our growing pantheon of women who, while they saved themselves and their sanity, became m... more »odels too complex and original for us to follow, yet, in the history of vital accomplishment too important to be forgotten.« less