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Samuel White Baker

Sir Samuel White Baker was a British explorer, naturalist, writer and administrator associated with nineteenth-century exploration of the Nile region. Travelling with Florence Baker, he reached and named Lake Albert in the 1860s. He later served as governor-general of Equatoria under the Egyptian government and campaigned against the regional slave trade.

Baker’s Nile expeditions brought him to Lake Albert in 1864, which he named in honour of Queen Victoria’s consort, and he later published widely read accounts of African travel. In the 1870s the Egyptian ruler Ismail appointed him to lead an expedition intended to suppress the slave trade and extend Egyptian authority into the upper Nile region. His career therefore combined exploration, imperial administration and the coercive politics of nineteenth-century expansion.

In Paul Fraser Collard’s Commander, Jack Lark works unofficially for the British Consul-General in Cairo until an opportunity arises to join explorer Sir Samuel White Baker on an expedition south into the Sudan.

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Samuel White Baker (1 series)

Jack Lark in Order

by Paul Fraser Collard 14 books 4.3(18,489)

Jack Lark is a Victorian military-adventure sequence following an East End-born soldier whose talent for impersonation repeatedly carries him into identities and commands that are not his own. The main novels move from the Crimean War through India, Persia and Italy to the American Civil War, Abyssinia, the…

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