To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa - Hardcover

Shipman, Pat

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060505559 ISBN 13: 9780060505554

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2004

Synopsis

A portrait drawn from personal journals and other historical documents discusses the nineteenth-century female adventurer's rescue from slavery, her education under and marriage to wealthy English adventurer Sam Baker, and her life of danger and excitement in the uncharted interior of Africa. 20,000 first printing.

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Review:

"A brilliant history and an engrossing tale." -- Shawn Carlson, Ph.D., MacArthur Fellow

"I found myself caught up in the narrative . . . convincing."--Grand Rapids Press

"A terrific love story . . . fascinating and historically interesting . . . [a] highly readable book."--San Jose Mercury News

"A brilliant history and an engrossing tale."--Shawn Carlson, Ph.D., MacArthur Fellow

"Shipman's account shines with historical clarity and narrative fluency...a reverent and careful tribute."--Publishers Weekly

"Absorbing ... conveys the danger in confronting Africa's vast unchartered territory [and] reveals the life of a very tough woman."--Los Angeles Times

"An extraordinary achievement of research and imagination."--Stanley Weintraub, biographer of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Benjamin Disraeli, and Charlotte and Lionel Rothschild

A terrific love story . . . fascinating and historically interesting . . . [a] highly readable book. --San Jose Mercury News"

I found myself caught up in the narrative . . . convincing. --Grand Rapids Press"

Shipman s account shines with historical clarity and narrative fluency...a reverent and careful tribute. --Publishers Weekly"

About the Author:

Pat Shipman is the author of eight previous books, including The Man Who Found the Missing Link and Taking Wing, which won the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for science and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and named a New York Times Notable Book for 1998. Her numerous awards and honors include the 1996 Rhone-Poulenc Prize for The Wisdom of the Bones (written with Alan Walker). Her most recent book is To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa. She is currently an adjunct professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University and lives in State College, Pennsylvania.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060505559
• ISBN 13: 9780060505554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448