Olive the Lionheart lost love, imperial spies, and one woman's journey to the heart of Africa

Ricca, Brad, author.

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In 1910, Olive MacLeod, a thirty-year-old, redheaded Scottish aristocrat, received word that her fiance, the famous naturalist Boyd Alexander, was missing in Africa. So she went to find him. It is the thrilling true story of her astonishing journey. In jungles, swamps, cities, and deserts, Olive and her two companions, the Talbots, come face-to-face with cobras and crocodiles, wise native chiefs, a murderous leopard cult, a haunted forest, and ev...

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