In the Heart of Africa (Forgotten Books)

In the Heart of Africa, by the English explorer Sir Samuel White Baker.

About the Author

Sir Samuel White Baker (8 June 1821 - 30 December 1893) was an English explorer.

He was born in London, and educated partly in England and partly in Germany. His father, a West India Company merchant, destined him for a commercial career, but a short experience of office work proved him to be entirely unsuited to such a life.

On 3 August 1843 he married Henrietta Biddulph Martin, daughter of the rector of Maisemore, Gloucestershire. Henrietta died in 1855.

During his time in Constantinople, he purportedly bought a Transylvanian girl, Barbara Maria Szasz, at a white slave auction in Vidin (now in Bulgaria). Renamed Florence, she became his second wife many years later, just before Baker returned to England for good. (Quote from wikipedia.org)

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.
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