Ludwig Leichhardt's ghosts : the strange career of a traveling myth /

"After the renowned Prussian scientist and explorer Ludwig Leichhardt left the Australian frontier in 1848 on an expedition to cross the continent, he disappeared without a trace. Andrew Hurley's book complicates that view by undertaking an afterlife biography of 'the Humboldt of Aust...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hurley, Andrew Wright (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2018.
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Subjects:
Leichhardt, Ludwig, > 1813-1848.
Explorers > Australia > Biography.
Naturalists > Germany > Biography.
Naturalistes > Allemagne > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
TRAVEL > Australia & Oceania.
HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand
Explorers.
Naturalists.
Australia.
Germany.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Discovering, mourning, and honoring Leichhardt between Australia and German-speaking Europe, 1848-1858
  • Ferdinand Mueller, the Ladies Committee, and German-Australian seekers of Leichhardt
  • Taking Leichhardt home to Germany with Georg Neumayer
  • Uneasily approaching the centenary
  • An interwar interregnum, or finding Leichhardt as a "friend of the aborigine"?
  • Nazi Leichhardt
  • Leichhardt the cold warrior
  • Leichhardt explodes, with no end in sight (including a concluding passage "The ghost of a chance").

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