The Fateful Journey : : The Expedition of Alexine Tinne and Theodor von Heuglin in Sudan (1863-1864) / / Robert Joost Willink; ed. by Jacques Thomassen, Kasper van Ommen.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (456 p.) :; 100 color plates, 9 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- 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