To the Heart of the Nile: Florence Baker's Extraordinary Life from the Harem to the Heart of Africa by Pat Shipman
To the Heart of the Nile: Florence Baker's Extraordinary Life from the Harem to the Heart of Africa
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Pat Shipman
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To the Heart of the Nile: Florence Baker's Extraordinary Life from the Harem to the Heart of Africa

Pat Shipman

542 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
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The events of Florence Baker's life read like a novel. Born in the 1840s into an aristocratic family who was murdered in the Hungarian revolution, Florence fled to the Ottoman empire with her nurse. She was next heard of living in a harem, barely ...

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