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Mary Kingsley

British ethnographer, scientific writer and explorer.

Born October 13th, 1862 in Islington.

Died June 3rd, 1900 at 37 years old in Cape Town (typhoid fever).

Occupations
anthropologist, botanical collector, ethnographer, explorer, nurse, scientific collector, suffragist, writer
Wikipedia

Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs