The Fateful Journey : The Expedition of Alexine Tinne and Theodor von Heuglin in Sudan (1863-1864) /

Bold, headstrong, and fabulously wealthy, Dutch traveller Alexine Tinne (1834-1869) made several excursions into the African interior, often accompanied by her mother, at a time when very few European women traveled. The Fateful Journey follows her trip with German zoologist Theodor von Heuglin, whi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Willink, Robert Joost (Autor)
Otros Autores: Thomassen, Jacques (Editor ), van Ommen, Kasper (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2012]
Temas:
Travel / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Sudan: the place for adventure, trade and science
  • Chapter 2. The White Nile and Khartoum
  • Chapter 3. Preparations for the journey
  • Chapter 4. To the Bahr el-Ghazal
  • Chapter 5. Beyond the Bahr el-Ghazal
  • Chapter 6. The reversal of fortune
  • Chapter 7. A pause in Cairo
  • Chapter 8. After Cairo
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1. The White Nile excursion of the Tinne party
  • Appendix 2. Khartoum in the summer of 1862
  • Appendix 3. Khartoum
  • Appendix 4. Sudan
  • Appendix 5. Letters A. Tinne from Khartoum and Berber
  • Appendix 6. Tidings from Cairo
  • Appendix 7. Petermann's maps of 1865 and 1869
  • Explanatory notes to the consulted sources
  • Acknowledgements
  • Source Notes
  • Map of Egypt and Sudan
  • Catalogue. ethnographic collections
  • An account of the description of the Tinne-Heuglin collections 325 Notes Catalogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Photo credits

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