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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,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 455 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, [Amsterdam] | 2011
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John Vaillant The tiger
a true story of vengeance and survival
Beschouwingen over de relatie tussen mens en tijger naar aanleiding van het waargebeurde verhaal over de jacht op een Siberische tijger die in Oost-Rusland mensen heeft gedood en opgegeten.
Engels | 329 pagina's | Vintage Departures, New York | 2011
Gedrukt boek
2011