Before his search for the Nile’s lakes, Baker spent a year exploring the rivers that flow from Abyssinia into the Nile, the Atbara and its neighbours, which carry the floods that fertilise Egypt. He describes the desert route from Cassala, wild asses and storms, Arab sheikhs, and above all the Hamran Arabs who hunted elephants on horseback with broadswords.
A vivid Victorian exploration narrative, with the hunting and racial attitudes of the 1860s. Download the free EPUB.