Travel
BAKER, Samuel White.
The Albert N'Yanza, great basin of the Nile, and explorations of the Nile sources.
Macmillan and Co., London 1866. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo., xxx, 395; ix, 384pp., double-portrait frontispiece in volume i, lithograph frontispiece in volume ii, 2 maps (1 large folding mounted on linen), 13 full-page plates, 20 illustrations in text, page 33-34 vol. ii with long tear reparied with no loss to text, later green calf-backed green cloth gilt.
Baker, after various adventures in Ceylon and the area around the Black Sea, went to Africa and embarked on his greatest adventure, namely to discover the source of the Nile. Having met up with Speke and Grant and exchanging valuable information with them, he eventually discovered the third great Nile lake, the Albert N'Yanza, but only after most of his men had deserted him and he had been forced to rely on the help of the slave trader Ibrahim and capricious local ruler, Kamrasi. One of the great travel narratives. Hilmy I, 49; Czech p10.
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