An East African Journey on Foot
Uncovering stories of Freedom, Battles and Celebration.
In the footsteps of Samuel and Florence Baker 1872.
This is about excitement, intrigue, dark tales of bravery and stories of terrible villains, all uncovered while walking through the beautiful and dramatic land scape of Northern Uganda and Southern Sudan.
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Masindi is the village near Lake Albert where the British explorer Sir Samuel Baker and his Hungarian-born, freed-slave, wife Florence Baker ran for their lives to escape a surprise attack from the villainous slave-trader About Saood in 1872 and fought them off for seven days while running north to Fort Patiko.
The expedition had been sent there by the Prince of Wales to suppress the slave trade and the pair freed many men, women and children who were being transported to Egypt up the White Nile. |
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One hundred and fifty years later, the explorers British Jacki Hill-Murphy and Australian Rebecca Webb, will walk the route where the Bakers escaped, over many weeks, covering hundreds of miles, finding landmarks linked to the Baker mission. By meeting local people, including descendants of the original tribes who lost their freedom, they can begin to document how life is now for them and whether the legacy of slavery has finally passed.
A documentary film and a book are the anticipated outcomes.
A documentary film and a book are the anticipated outcomes.
Meet the Explorers
Rebecca Webb, MA is an explorer, lawyer and pilot.
She has worked for many years as a child abuse lawyer and has a love of exploration and adventure.
Her first expedition was to travel from Australia to UK overland on a solo adventure. She has done high altitude mountaineering in Nepal and travelled from Panama to Mexico before teaming up with Jacki Hill-Murphy in 2013 to cross Siberia in the footsteps of Kate Marsden and again in 2016 to travel the Amazon.
In 2020 Rebecca travelled to South Africa where she completed her private pilot's licence and is now doing a course in aerobatics whilst working as a volunteer board member for a formation aerobatics team.
Jacki Hill-Murphy MA, FRGS, is an explorer, writer and speaker.
She has has travelled to some of the most inhospitable places on earth to re-create the journeys of daring women adventurers from the past.
In tracking valiant women, like Mary Kingsley and Isabella Bird, she pays tribute to their invincible spirit and achievements in the three books she has written on the subject . Jacki’s journeys in the footsteps of Victorian explorers have taken her across the Digar-La in Ladakh, India; to the summit of Mount Cameroon; by public transport from Moscow to Siberia, Eastern Nigeria and from source to sea along the Amazon River.
Jacki is patron of Bristol Women’s Therapy Centre, carries out many speaking engagements and is working towards a PhD on her auto-ethnographical approach to travel writing.
Jacki loves camping in the wilderness.
She has worked for many years as a child abuse lawyer and has a love of exploration and adventure.
Her first expedition was to travel from Australia to UK overland on a solo adventure. She has done high altitude mountaineering in Nepal and travelled from Panama to Mexico before teaming up with Jacki Hill-Murphy in 2013 to cross Siberia in the footsteps of Kate Marsden and again in 2016 to travel the Amazon.
In 2020 Rebecca travelled to South Africa where she completed her private pilot's licence and is now doing a course in aerobatics whilst working as a volunteer board member for a formation aerobatics team.
Jacki Hill-Murphy MA, FRGS, is an explorer, writer and speaker.
She has has travelled to some of the most inhospitable places on earth to re-create the journeys of daring women adventurers from the past.
In tracking valiant women, like Mary Kingsley and Isabella Bird, she pays tribute to their invincible spirit and achievements in the three books she has written on the subject . Jacki’s journeys in the footsteps of Victorian explorers have taken her across the Digar-La in Ladakh, India; to the summit of Mount Cameroon; by public transport from Moscow to Siberia, Eastern Nigeria and from source to sea along the Amazon River.
Jacki is patron of Bristol Women’s Therapy Centre, carries out many speaking engagements and is working towards a PhD on her auto-ethnographical approach to travel writing.
Jacki loves camping in the wilderness.
