Samuel White Baker Letters 1866-1869

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Samuel White Baker Letters 1866-1869

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/b/baker_sw.htm

Letters of the British explorer and travel writer

1 folder (SC 176)

eng,

Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center

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Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893

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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 acc...