Alice Princess--An Autobiography / Siwundhla, Alice Princess Msumba / (HB/1965-1965/B/USED)

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Alice Princess Msumba, a spindly orphan girl, lived in a mud hut near Lake Nyassa (now Lake Malawi), Africa. The tribespeople ate rats and mice, lived in terror of photography and twin babies, and believed that if a pregnant woman ate salt, she and her whole family would die. Village girls cut patterns on their stomachs and rubbed charcoal into them; they believed that the decorative scars remaining kept them from being "slippery like snakes" and thus unmarriageable.
Then Alice heard the bells of Luwazi Mission School. They led her toward achievement, toward education. Here she began her remarkable ascent that led to Salisbury, London, Los Angeles, and to a surprise appearance on "This Is Your Life" telecast from Hollywood.
In this story you will also meet Lowell and Josephine Edwards, an American couple who adopted Alice and nicknamed her "Peaches." You will see why Mr. Edwards never found things dull living with "two tornadoes in the house at once"--his wife and Alice.

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