Commissioned by the Khedive Ismail, Samuel Baker led an armed expedition up the White Nile from 1869 to annex the equatorial lands to Egypt and break the slave trade. He tells of cutting through the sudd, the camp at Tewfikeeyah, Gondokoro, battles with slave-traders and with the kingdom of Bunyoro, and of his wife Florence’s part in it all.
A major narrative of African exploration and empire, its views those of a Victorian imperialist. Download the free EPUB.