A condensed version of Baker’s account of his journey of the 1860s to find the sources of the Nile. Setting out across the Nubian desert in 1861 with his companion Florence, later his wife, he explores the Atbara, travels up the Nile from Khartoum, meets Speke and Grant at Gondokoro, and pushes on through hostile country to reach the great lake he named the Albert N’yanza.
A classic of African exploration, with the imperial attitudes of its Victorian author. Download the free EPUB.