num_pages: 428
description: Pat Shipman tells the story of Lady Florence Baker, a Hungarian who lived in a Turkish harem until sold at auction to her future husband, the explorer Sam Baker. Together they travelled to Africa and discovered the source of the Nile, experiencing great privations and dangers along the way.
language: English
title: The Stolen Woman: Florence Baker's Extraordinary Life from the Harem to the Heart of Africa
titlecomplete: The Stolen Woman: Florence Baker's Extraordinary Life from the Harem to the Heart of Africa
genres: History, Womens, Adventure, 19th Century, Biography Memoir, Travel, Africa, Egypt, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 338
publisher: Bantam Press