Wonderful Adventures is a rare example of an early autobiography by a Black British woman originally published in 1857. Mary Seacole, born into Jamaican slave society, chronicles her extensive travels and experiences for a Victorian public. A significant figure in the Crimean War, Mary Seacole deserves to stand beside Florence Nightingale, but is seldom mentioned or accorded even a footnote. She chronicles her extensive travels. Businesswoman, traveller, gold prospector, writer, nurse, she led a varied and exciting life. In 2004 she was voted the greatest Black Briton --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

No autobiography by an Afro-American woman of the nineteenth century defies classification more than Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857). A free-born Jamaican, evidently well protected from the tentacles of slavery, Mary Jane Grant Seacole did not write her narrative expressly to advance the cause of antislavery, as so many Afro-American women autobiographers did during her era. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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