Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893
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Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893
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Baker, Samuel White
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Бейкер, Самюэл Уайт, 1821-1893
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Baker, Samuel W. 1821-1893 Sir
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Baker, Samuel White, Sir, explorer
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Baker, Samuel, Sir.
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Бэкер, Самюэль Уайт 1821-1893
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Uajt Bèker, Samuil.
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Baker, Samuel W. Sir 1821-1893
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White Baker, Samuel 1821-1893
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White, Samuel Baker- 1821-1893
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Bèker, Sèm'ûl U.
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Bèker, Samuil Uajt
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Baker, Samuel W. 1821-1893
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Baker, Samuel White Sir
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Baker, S. White Sir 1821-1893
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Бекер, Самюэль 1821-1893
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Бекер, Самюэль 1821-1893
Baker, Samuel W.
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Baker, S. W. 1821-1893
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Беккер, Самюэл Уайт 1821-1893
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Беккер, Самюэл Уайт 1821-1893
White Baker, Samuel.
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Baker, Sam 1821-1893
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Bekker 1821-1893
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Baker, Samuel White
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Samuel White Baker was born in London and educated in England and Germany. His father, a merchant with the West India Company, wanted his son to follow in his footsteps, but young Samuel chose instead the life of an adventurer. He founded an immigrant colony in Ceylon, published several books on hunting, supervised the construction of a railway connecting the Danube with the Black Sea, and bought a Hungarian slave girl in Bulgaria (whom he rechristened "Florence" and eventually married). She accompanied him on his explorations of Central Africa where information from two other explorers, John Speke and James Grant, led him to discover Albert N'yanza (Lake Albert), through which flows the Nile. Both the Royal Geographical Society and the Paris Geographical Society awarded him gold medals for his journeys, and he was knighted in 1866. In 1869 Sir Samuel commanded a military expedition to the Nile regions of Africa to suppress the slave-trade there and open the way for commerce; for this he was given the rank of pasha and major-general in the Ottoman army. In 1874 he and Lady Baker returned to England where he purchased Sandford Orleigh, an estate in Devon. Baker continued to travel the globe for big-game hunting and for pleasure, wrote a number of books based on his experiences, and corresponded regularly with a number of people on Egyptian affairs. He died at Sandford Orleigh in 1893.
African explorer and traveller.
English explorer in Africa.
British author and traveler.
Epithet: explorer
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https://viaf.org/viaf/4971822
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79138570
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n79138570
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q376087
https://viaf.org/viaf/287249062
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Explorers and exploration
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Cartographer
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Ceylon, Asia
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Essay, France
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Devonport, Devon
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South Africa, Africa
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Sudan, Africa
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Africa, Africa
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Borneo, Indonsesia
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Sudan
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Egypt, Africa
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Ramba Wihara, Ceylon
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Scotland, United Kingdom
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Palestine, Asia Minor
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Rouen, France
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Neufchâtel-en-Bray al. Chateauneuf de Lincourt, Seine-Inférieure
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Egypt, Africa
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Peking, Chihli, China
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Cyprus, Asia Minor
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United States of America
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Africa
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Ethiopia, Africa
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Central Africa, Africa
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China, Asia
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Exmes, France
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Uganda, Africa
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Sudan, Africa
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India, Asia
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Ratnapura, Ceylon
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Basutoland, Africa
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Antwerp, Belgium
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South Africa, Africa
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