Take Note: Heart of the Nile

Take Note: Heart of the Nile

Prepare to embark upon a breathtaking adventure, brimming with hair-raising rescues, impossible quests, danger, discovery, catastrophe, mutiny and uncompromising love-all the more remarkable because every word is true. In her new book, To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa, nationally-acclaimed author Pat Shipman chronicles the dramatic lives of two Victorian adventurers a compulsive explorer and the courageous beauty he rescued from a Turkish harem.  Shipman is the author of seven books, including The Man Who Found the Missing Link and Taking Wing, which won the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for science. 

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