Sir Samuel Baker: a Memoir North Africa Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel

Abstract

A SUMMARY of our present knowledge of Northern Africa, and a memoir of the late Sir Samuel Baker, may be appropriately considered together, for Baker's main title to fame rests on the work he did in that region; and had his experience been properly utilised, the most interesting part of it might not have been lost to civilisation and closed to scientific inquiry. Sir Samuel Baker: a Memoir. By T. Douglas Murray A. Silva White. 8vo. Pp. xii. 447, with six illustrations and nine maps. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1895.) North Africa. Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel. (New series). Africa. Vol. i. By A. H. Keane. 8vo. Pp. xvi. 639, with seventy-seven illustrations and nine maps. (London: E. Stanford, 1895.)