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The fateful journey : the expedition of Alexine Tinne and Theodor von Heuglin in Sudan (1863-1864) : a study of their travel accounts and ethnographic collections /
This compelling, richly illustrated work recounts the African journeys of the intrepid Dutch traveller Alexine Tinne (1835-1869). Heiress to a huge fortune -she was at the time the richest woman in the country - and bored with the royal court intrigues in The Hague, Tinne left for Egypt and Sudan ac...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Amsterdam] :
Amsterdam University Press,
Ã2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This compelling, richly illustrated work recounts the African journeys of the intrepid Dutch traveller Alexine Tinne (1835-1869). Heiress to a huge fortune -she was at the time the richest woman in the country - and bored with the royal court intrigues in The Hague, Tinne left for Egypt and Sudan accompanied by her mother Henriette Tinne-Van Capellen, ultimately settling in Khartoum. On her expedition in 1862-64, Tinne was joined by the German zoologist Theodor von Heuglin: the whole party set out for the as yet uncharted Bahr-el-Ghazal, hoping to explore that region and ascertain how far west. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (455 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789048514908 9048514908 |