Stolen Woman

Name: Stolen Woman
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ISBN: 9780593050071

ISBN-10: 059305007X

ISBN-13: 9780593050071

Edition: 2004

Authors: Pat Shipman

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The events of Florence Baker's life read like a novel. Born in the 1840s into an aristocratic family who were all murdered in the Hungarian revolution, Florence fled to the Ottoman empire with her nurse. She was next heard of living in a harem, barely in her teens. In 1859 she was presented at auction, and it was in this most unlikely of settings that she met her soulmate Sam Baker, a wealthy English adventurer whose geographic discoveries proved crucial to England's understanding of the African landscape. Saving her from slavery, Sam offered his paramour much more a life of danger, excitement and passion exploring the uncharted interior of Africa in search of the source of the Nile.…

Book details

Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Pat Shipman is a professor of anthropology at Penn State University. Coauthor of the award-winning The Ape in the Tree, she writes for American Scientist and lives in Moncure, North Carolina.