The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole

The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands

Mary Seacole with Yasmin Mwanza (Narrator)

8 hours, 45 minutes first pub 1857 (editions)

nonfiction classics history travel adventurous informative medium-paced
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Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole's offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war met with racism and refusal. Undaunted, Seacole set out independen...

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