BAKER, Samuel.

Autograph letter, signed.

Stock Code 98714

20th March, 1879.

£1,750.00 - £1,750.00

£1,750.00

£1,750.00 - £1,750.00

£1,750.00

The kernel of the nut. A very interesting letter from the great Nile explorer and adventurer, Samuel Baker in which he discusses the importance of maps in travel books, writing 'without which a book of travel is worthless', and that if the map has gone missing, 'it has lost the kernel of the nut i.e. the route'.

Three-page autograph letter, signed, to an unnamed correspondent. Together with a photograph of Baker, framed and glazed.

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