My new heroine

From now on, the Gore-Tex stays at home. Like Mary Henrietta Kingsley I'm going to adopt Victorian formal-wear for walking including corset, good thick skirt and sensible shoes.

Animal-traps, crocodiles and cannibals held no fear for this English lady as she explored Africa clad head to foot and straight-backed.



Read more about this Great British Nutter here:
http://greatbritishnutters.blogspot.com/2008/04/mary-kingsley-friend-of-cannibals.html