A book report on A Voyager Out
Frank, Katherine. A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1986 Katherine Frank's novel A Voyager Out tells the life story of Mary Kingsley. She talks of her childhood, her young adult life, and her traveling life. She wanted to tell the world what this woman explorer did for Africa. Mary Kingsley had a famous family, many of whom were writers. Mary herself wrote two books. In her books however, she leaves out a lot about her life. A lot of what Katherine Frank had discovered came from Mary's letters to friends while traveling. Some people who were the recipients of her letters found it odd that she put so much into her correspondences. In one case, she wrote a ten-page letter to a friend. His response to her was that she was wasting many of her good stories that could be published on a letter. Her response was to write him a six-page letter. She loved writing. She also loved her voyages to Africa. Part of Mary Kingsley's reason for loving her travel abroad came from her childhood life. Mary was born the daughter of a high-class man and his cook. George Kingsley was a writer and came from a family of writers. He did not produce much however. He left a lot of his work
While in Christianborg Mary discovered just how bad the white man's death toll was. She began her life by taking care of her ill mother, crusaded all of her life by helping Africans and British who were overcome by sicknesses found in Africa, and then later died from being surrounded by diseases all of her life. The research that the author of The Voyager Out based her writings on was Mary's own writings. Most of her education came from reading her father's books. The first being buried at sea rather than in a cold tomb that was waiting for her back in England. Mary's finally voyage was to South Africa. Because the African wore little or no clothing, it was probably the first time Mary had seen a naked body other than her own. She felt that the Africans related better to her as a trader than they would have if she had come in empty handed. After a while, however, the black clothes became accustomed to her. While gone this second time, Mary Bailey had a stroke and Mary stayed home with her mother from then on. Helping to cure others was her skill in life. At each new place that The Lagos stopped more and more deaths occurred. While aboard the ship some of the passengers died.
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