Sir Samuel White Baker—explorer
Birth
Sir Samuel White Baker was born in London on the 8th of June 1821.
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Baker, Sir Samuel White, an African traveler, was born in London in 1821, and educated there and in Germany.
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Work
Sir Samuel White Baker was an explorer and one of the earliest enthusiasts for a British occupation of Sri Lanka, which he first visited in 1846.
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SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER (1821-1893), English ..... See, besides his own writings, Sir Samuel Baker, a Memoir, by T. Douglas Murray and ..... Sir Richard Baker • Thomas Baker ..... Retrieved from "
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Sir Samuel White Baker took wife Florence along as he sought...chiefs suggestion he leave behind Mrs Baker for his enjoyment.
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Samuel White Baker Sir Richard Francis Burton Mary Henrietta Kingsley Mungo Park Sir Samuel White Baker Sir Samuel White Baker (1821-1893), was an English explorer of Africa. He became known as an expert on Egypt and Sudan chiefly through his two books, The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the Nile (1866) and The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia (1867). He also wrote popular books on hunting and nature. Baker was born in London. During the late 1850's and early 1860's, he and Florence von Sass, whom he later married, explored the region of the White Nile, the Blue Nile, and the Atbara River in Africa.
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Sir Samuel White Baker: The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs
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Sir Samuel White Baker biography and life story ... Sir Samuel White Baker (8 June 1821-30 December 1893) was an English explorer.
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Baker, Sir Samuel White, 1821–93, English explorer in Africa. He explored the Nile tributaries in Ethiopia in 1861–62. Going up the Nile from Cairo, he reached Gondokoro in 1863. He continued his journey southward in spite of the opposition of Arab slave traders and visited Lake Albert (Albert Nyanza) on Mar. 14, 1864. In 1869, with the authority of the khedive of Egypt, he returned to the region and, creating an administration in the Lado Enclave, he suppressed the slave trade and opened up the lake areas to commerce.
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