Samuel White Baker
In the Heart of Africa — Samuel White Baker
In the Heart of Africa — Samuel White Baker
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From my youth I had been inured to hardships and endurance in wild sports in tropical climates, and when I gazed upon the map of Africa I had a wild feeling of ambition to explore its secrets.
23 chapters · 9 hours 19 minutes
Sir Samuel White Baker’s vivid account of exploration in Central Africa and the upper Nile region. Drawn from his journeys in search of the Nile’s sources, it follows desert crossings, encounters along the White Nile, and the expedition that led to Lake Albert.
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Author: Samuel White Baker
Narrator: Steven Seitel
Language: English
Subjects: Nile exploration, Sudan, Central Africa, travel and geography
Edition: Public-domain text and public-domain LibriVox recording
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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 presumption to publish my intention, as the sources of the Nile had hitherto defied all explorers, but I had inwardly determined to accomplish this difficult task or to die in the attempt. From my youth I had been inured to hardships and endurance in wild sports in tropical climates, and when I gazed upon the map of Africa I had a wild hope, mingled with humility, that, even as the insignificant worm bores through the hardest oak, I might by perseverance reach the heart of Africa.
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