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No Country For a Woman: The Adventurous Life of Lady Dorothy Mills, Explorer and Writer

By Jane Dismore
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By Jane Dismore
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Lady Dorothy 'Dolly' Mills was a petite figure with a big personality, born in 1889 into the political and literary Walpole family. When she married a clever but poor army captain, her father disinherited her. Defying her background and the expectations of her sex, she became a renowned explorer in West Africa - she was the first English woman in Timbuktu - and beyond, travelling deep into Venezeuela and Asia where only men had gone before. Dolly wrote acclaimed travel books illuminating re...

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