Mary Jobe Akeley
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1886 – 1966
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Who was Mary Jobe Akeley?
Mary Jobe Akeley was an explorer and naturalist and the wife of Carl E. Akeley. She is famous as one of the earliest women explorers in Africa where she helped her husband hunt and photograph animals during their natural history studies. She is the author of Carl Akeley's Africa, published in 1929, Lions, Gorillas and Their Neighbors, published in 1932 and Congo Eden published in 1950. Mount Jobe in Canada was renamed in her honor to acknowledge her exploration efforts in the Rocky Mountains.
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- Born
- 1886
United States of America - Also known as
- Mary L. Jobe Akeley
- Spouses
- Carl Akeley
(1924 - 1926/11/18)
- Carl Akeley
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bryn Mawr College
- Died
- 1966
Mystic, Connecticut
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on July 23, 2013
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