Robert Joost Willink 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

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. This book follows her trip with German zoologist Theodor von Heuglin, which took them through Egypt and Sudan in search of adventure and unknown regions in Central Africa.. Drawing upon four years of research in the Tinne archives, and including never before published correspondence,...

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Engels | 455 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, [Amsterdam] | 2011

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