Setting out from Gondokoro, where they met Speke and Grant returning from Lake Victoria, Samuel Baker and his wife Florence pushed south through hostile country, slave traders, fever and starvation. Their goal was a second great lake reported to feed the Nile, and the book tells how they reached and named Lake Albert in 1864.
A classic of Victorian African exploration, gripping and revealing, though Baker’s views of Africans are those of his era. Download the free EPUB.