About Vivienne de Watteville
Vivienne Florence Beatrice de Watteville was a British travel writer and adventurer, author of two books based on her experiences in East Africa in the 1920s, Out in the Blue (1927) and Speak to the Earth (1935). She is best remembered for taking charge of and continuing an expedition in the Congo and Uganda at the age of 24, when her father was killed by a lion. Vivienne's third book thus becomes an ironic and mature comment on her second, which itself was a comment on her first. In her first book, Out in the Blue (i.e. in the far country), published in 1927, she describes her experiences on safari.
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