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Review
"Livingstone refused to accept Sam Baker as an associate in his African explorations, so Baker formed his own expedition—ostensibly to search for John Speke and James Grant—and ended up making discoveries as famous as any of the era. On the way to Africa he bought a teenage Hungarian girl at a Turkish slave auction in Bulgaria and eventually made her both his wife and a proper Victorian lady, not necessarily in that order, and we have left a few items by the wayside. Florence, as the girl was called, and Sam spent years searching for the headwaters of the Nile and about the same amount of time fighting off slavers and malaria." Reviewed by Robert Jackson, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)