In the Heart of Africa
Samuel White Baker
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Length 9 h 20 min
Chapters 23
First published 1886
A wonderfully readable condensation of two of Baker's earlier, longer works recounting his self-sponsored expeditions into the Dark Continent to discover the sources of the Nile: The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin Of The Nile (1866) and The Nile Tributaries Of Abyssinia (1867). And, of course, to bag a few elephants along the way. (Summary by Steven Seitel)
Chapters
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Chapter 1. The Nubian Desert... Read by Steven Seitel 30:24
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Chapter 2, Egypt's Rule of the Sudan... Read by Steven Seitel 20:50
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Chapter 3, The Arabs' Exodus... Read by Steven Seitel 27:48
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Chapter 4, On the Abyssinian Border... Read by Steven Seitel 13:47
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Chapter 5, A Primitive Craft... Read by Steven Seitel 20:28
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Chapter 6, Preparations for Advance... Read by Steven Seitel 19:01
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Chapter 7, The Start from Geera... Read by Steven Seitel 23:18
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Chapter 8, The Elephant Trumpets... Read by Steven Seitel 33:29
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Chapter 9, Fright of the Tokrooris... Read by Steven Seitel 28:15
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Chapter 10, A Day with the Howartis... Read by Steven Seitel 26:25
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Chapter 11, The Bull-Elephant... Read by Steven Seitel 26:11
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Chapter 12, Abyssinian Slave Girls... Read by Steven Seitel 22:37
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Chapter 13, Gondokoro... Read by Steven Seitel 24:47
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Chapter 14, Startling Disclosures... Read by Steven Seitel 18:33
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Chapter 15, A Start Made at Last... Read by Steven Seitel 25:41
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Chapter 16, The Greeting of the Slave-Traders... Read by Steven Seitel 33:26
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Chapter 17, Disease in the Camp... Read by Steven Seitel 24:19
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Chapter 18, Greetings from Kamrasi's People... Read by Steven Seitel 24:08
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Chapter 19, Kamrasi's Cowardice... Read by Steven Seitel 22:28
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Chapter 20, A Satanic Escort... Read by Steven Seitel 19:36
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Chapter 21, The Cradle of the Nile... Read by Steven Seitel 19:39
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Chapter 22, Prisoners on the Island... Read by Steven Seitel 28:34
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Chapter 23, The Hour of Deliverance Read by Steven Seitel 26:03
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