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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue; Introduction; Sudan: the place for adventure, trade and science; The White Nile and Khartoum; Preparations for the journey; To the Bahr el-Ghazal; Beyond the Bahr el-Ghazal; The reversal of fortune; A pause in Cairo; After Cairo; Epilogue; Appendices; The White Nile excursion of the Tinne party; Khartoum in the summer of 1862; Khartoum; Sudan; Letters A. Tinne from Khartoum and Berber; Tidings from Cairo; Petermann's maps of 1865 and 1869; Explanatory notes to the consulted sources; Acknowledgements; Source Notes; Catalogue; Introduction to the ethnographic collections.