{"product_id":"olive-the-lionheart-paperback","title":"Olive the Lionheart: Lost Love, Imperial Spies, and One Woman's Journey Into the Heart of Africa - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrad Ricca\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full of adventure and acts of courage, it's hard to believe she actually lived. And yet she did! Brad Ricca has found a heroine for the ages, and written her tale with a winning combination of accuracy and imagination.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e-- Paula McLain, author of \u003ci\u003eLove and Ruin\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Wife\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Edgar-nominated author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eMrs. Sherlock Holmes\u003c\/i\u003e comes the true story of a woman's quest to Africa in the 1900s to find her missing fiancé, and the adventure that ensues.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1910, Olive MacLeod, a thirty-year-old, redheaded Scottish aristocrat, received word that her fiancé, the famous naturalist Boyd Alexander, was missing in Africa. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo she went to find him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOlive the Lionheart \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 even two adorable lion cubs that she adopts as her own. Making her way in a pair of ill-fitting boots, Olive awakens to the many forces around her, from shadowy colonial powers to an invisible Islamic warlord who may hold the key to Boyd's disappearance. As these secrets begin to unravel, all of Olive's assumptions prove wrong and she is forced to confront the darkest, most shocking secret of all: why she really came to Africa in the first place. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on Olive's own letters and secret diaries, \u003ci\u003eOlive the Lionheart \u003c\/i\u003eis a love story that defies all boundaries, set against the backdrop of a beautiful, unconquerable Africa. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis book is not for sale in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRAD RICCA is the author of the Edgar Award-nominated \u003ci\u003eMrs. Sherlock Holmes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSuper Boys\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction. He won the St. Lawrence Book Award for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Mastodon\u003c\/i\u003e. Ricca lives and works in Cleveland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.24 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 17, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101972172935,"sku":"9781250796691","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/92565f80147cb3ec1fcdc2e14f8f0ea6.webp?v=1732399369","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/olive-the-lionheart-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}