Albert N’yanza, great basin of the Nile, and explorations of the nile sources

In 1863 Samuel White Baker, accompanied by his wife, discovered Albert N’Yanza, which he named after the Queen’s late Consort. These two volumes describe his numerous adventures and as he says himself;
‘Having thus completed the work after nearly five years passed in Africa, there still remains a task before me. I must take the reader of these volumes by the hand, and lead him step by step along my rough path from the beginning to the end; through scorching deserts and thirsty sands; through swamp and jungle and interminable morass; through difficulties, fatigues and sickness until I bring him, faint with the wearying journey, to that high cliff where the great prize shall burst upon his view – from which he shall look down upon the vast Albert Lake and drink with me from the sources of the Nile!’