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Finalist for the 2021 Ohioana Book Award in Nonfiction"Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history . . . Brad Ricca has found a heroine for the ages, and written her tale with a winning combination of accuracy and imagination." Paula McLain, author of Love and Ruin and The Paris WifeFrom the Edgarnominated author of the bestselling Mrs. Sherlock Holmes comes the true story of a woman's quest to Africa in the 1900s to find her missing fianc, and the adventure that ensues.In 1910, Olive MacLeod, a thirtyyearold, redheaded Scottish aristocrat, received word that her fianc, the famous naturalist Boyd Alexander, was missing in Africa.So she went to find him.Olive the Lionheart is the thrilling true story of her astonishing journey. In jungles, swamps, cities, and deserts, Olive and her two companions, the Talbots, come facetoface with cobras and crocodiles, wise native chiefs, a murderous leopard cult, a haunted forest, and even two adorable lion cubs that she adopts as her own. Making her way in a pair of illfitting boots, Olive awakens to the many forces around her, from shadowy colonial powers to an invisible Islamic warlord who may hold the key to Boyd's disappearance. As these secrets begin to unravel, all of Olive's assumptions prove wrong and she is forced to confront the darkest, most shocking secret of all: why she really came to Africa in the first place.Drawing on Olive's own letters and secret diaries, Olive the Lionheart is a love story that defies all boundaries, set against the backdrop of a beautiful, unconquerable Africa.This book is not for sale in the United Kingdom.
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