BRAD RICCA is the author of the Edgar Award-nominated Mrs. Sherlock Holmes and Super Boys, winner of the Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction. He won the St. Lawrence Book Award for American Mastodon. Ricca lives and works in Cleveland.
*Christian Science Monitor 10 Best Books of August pick*
"Fans of women's history and adventure stories will cheer this
engrossing account." --Publishers Weekly "Olive the
Lionheart has it all - secret chambers, lost love, and the
dwelling place of a devil. Ricca mines emotions and real fears in
this incredible true story." --Brad Meltzer, bestselling author of
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George
Washington
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. --Paula McLain, author of Love and
Ruin and The Paris Wife Ricca makes the most of this
engaging story. --Booklist [Ricca] successfully conveys the
powerful, nearly hallucinatory state of grief that MacLeod must
have endured over the course of her journey. A swift-moving
re-creation of an intrepid, rare spirit of her age. --Kirkus
Reviews This incredible true story of one woman's quest to find her
missing fiance is the perfect summer adventure book. In 1910,
Scottish aristocrat Olive MacLeod received word that her fiance,
the famed naturalist Boyd Alexander, was missing in Africa. So, she
went to find him. Though there are wild animals to fight and
inhospitable forests to whack through, MacLeod's incredible journey
becomes even stranger as she goes on. --Town & Country Olive
the Lionheart presents an immersive portrait of a remarkable,
largely unheralded individual. --Smithsomian Magazine Olive the
Lionheart is a harrowing and fascinating tale of a woman who
broke rules and hearts as she blazed trails in a world of change.
--bookreporter
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