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  • The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia

    by Samuel W. Baker ...
    Samuel Baker (1821 - 1893) was born in England. After the death of his wife he traveled to Ceylon in 1846. Baker established an agriculture settlement in Nuwara Eliva. He helped bring cattle and emigrants from England and made a success of the settlement. During his stay in Ceylon he spent a great deal of time hunting with his hounds, which became the genesis of this novel and a later work. Baker ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Heart of Africa

    by Sir Samuel White Baker ...
    The Nubian desert—The bitter well—Change of plans—An irascible dragoman—Pools of the Atbara—One secret of the Nile—At Cassala. In March, 1861, I commenced an expedition to discover the sources of the Nile, with the hope of meeting the East African expedition of Captains Speke and Grant, that had been sent by the English Government from the South via Zanzibar, for the same object. I had not the ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wild Beasts And Their Ways

    by Baker Samuel ...
    An enthralling research by Baker about elephants the magnificent wild beasts. He travelled to India Egypt and Japan to explore the secrets of their lives. It captivates the readers with its heart-stopping adventures both real and imaginary. A spell-binding journey! ... Read more

    $6.19 CAD

  • Eight Years' Wandering in Ceylon

    by Samuel White Baker ...
    Eight Years' Wandering in Ceylon by Samuel White Baker. ... Read more

    $0.97 CAD

  • The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs

    by Samuel W. Baker ...
    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. THE work entitled The Albert N'yanza Great Basin of the Nile, published in 1866, has given an account of the equatorial lake system from which the Egyptian river derives its source. It has been determined by the joint explorations of Speke, Grant, and myself, that the rainfall of the equatorial districts supplies two vast lakes, the Victoria and the ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Ismailia

    by Samuel W. Baker ...
    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. An interval of five years has elapsed since the termination of my engagement in the service of His Highness the Khedive of Egypt, to suppress the slave-hunters of Central Africa, and to annex the countries constituting the Nile Basin, with the object of opening those savage regions to legitimate commerce and establishing a permanent government. ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs

    by Samuel White Sir Baker ...
    THE work entitled “The Albert N'yanza Great Basin of the Nile, ” published in 1866, has given an account of the equatorial lake system from which the Egyptian river derives its source. It has been determined by the joint explorations of Speke, Grant, and myself, that the rainfall of the equatorial districts supplies two vast lakes, the Victoria and the Albert, of sufficient volume to support the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon

    by Samuel W. Baker ...
    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. Upwards of twenty years have passed since the 'Rifle and Hound in Ceylon' was published, and I have been requested to write a preface for a new edition. Although this long interval of time has been spent in a more profitable manner than simple sport, nevertheless I have added considerably to my former experience of wild animals by nine years passed in ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • The Albert N'Yanza

    by Samuel W. Baker ...
    In the history of the Nile there was a void: its Sources were a mystery. The Ancients devoted much attention to this problem; but in vain. The Emperor Nero sent an expedition under the command of two centurions, as described by Seneca. Even Roman energy failed to break the spell that guarded these secret fountains. The expedition sent by Mehemet Ali Pasha, the celebrated Viceroy of Egypt, closed a ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • The Heart of Africa

    by Samuel W. Baker ...
    The Nubian desert � The bitter well � Change of plans � An irascible dragoman � Pools of the Atbara � One secret of the Nile � At Cassala. ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon

    by Sir Samuel White Baker ...
    It was in the year 1845 that the spirit of wandering allured me toward Ceylon: little did I imagine at that time that I should eventually become a settler. The descriptions of its sports, and the tales of hairbreadth escapes from elephants, which I had read in various publications, were sources of attraction against which I strove in vain; and I at length determined upon the very wild idea of ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Heart of Africa

    by Samuel White Sir Baker ...
    The Nubian desert— The bitter well— Change of plans— An irascible dragoman— Pools of the Atbara— One secret of the Nile— At Cassala. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD