Prodigies
Three women-daughter, mother and 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 at 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…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4472-5855-1
- EAN: 9781447258551
- Produktnummer: 15600914
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 464 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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