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Description : Title: Exploration of the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia. The Sources, Supply, and Overflow of the Nile, the Country, People, Customs, Etc. Interspersed with Many Highly Exciting Adventures of the Author, among Elephants, Lions, Buffaloes, Hippopotami, Rhinoceros, Antelopes, and Other Great Game of the Country, Accompanied by Expert Native Sword Hunters Author: Sir Samuel W. Baker - Sir Samuel White Baker, KCB, FRS, FRGS was a British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. He also held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. He served as the Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin (today's South Sudan and Northern Uganda) between Apr. 1869 - Aug. 1873, which he established as the Province of Equatoria. He is mostly remembered as the discoverer of Lake Albert, as an explorer of the Nile and interior of central Africa, and for his exploits as a big game hunter in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. Baker wrote a considerable number of books and published articles. He was a friend of King Edward VII, who as Prince of Wales, visited Baker with Queen Alexandra in Egypt. Other friendships were with explorers Henry Morton Stanley, Roderick Murchison, John H. Speke and James A. Grant, with the ruler of Egypt Pasha Ismail The Magnificent, Major-General Charles George Gordon and Maharaja Duleep Singh. Publisher: O. D. Case & Co. City: Hartford Year: 1868 Binding Style: Hardcover Pagination: 608 pages Width: 6.25 Height: 9 Book Details: Condition / Notes: Antique volume is blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Book shows mild external wear, with light soiling to covers. Binding is sound. Page shows faint water marking appears along top edge of initial pages. Pages otherwise display very occasional light foxing and faint smudge marks. Contains numerous in-text and full-page illustrations, as well as two well-preserved color maps, one of which is a fold-out map of the Nile tributaries. For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50
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