Donna K. (tomeworm) reviewed on + 52 more book reviews
True story based on the life of an African bushwoman who ends up
exhibited in a show as a "scientific curiousity" because of the way her tribe decorates their bodies. She was born in S. Africa in 1790, widowed very young, and lost a child at a very young age...takes off from Capetown to find a life for herself and ends up being shown naked to crowds across Europe. Barbara Chase-Riboud also wrote Sally Hemings and other books about Amistad mutiny, etc.
exhibited in a show as a "scientific curiousity" because of the way her tribe decorates their bodies. She was born in S. Africa in 1790, widowed very young, and lost a child at a very young age...takes off from Capetown to find a life for herself and ends up being shown naked to crowds across Europe. Barbara Chase-Riboud also wrote Sally Hemings and other books about Amistad mutiny, etc.
