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 de Watteville, British travel writer and adventurer (d. 1957)}

17 August 1900

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