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 /

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Main Author: Willink, Joost (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2011.

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Call Number: DT154.73 .W55 2011

Table of Contents:
  • Sudan: the place for adventure, trade and science
  • The White Nile and Khartoum
  • Perparations for the journey
  • To the Bahr el-Ghazal
  • Beyond the Bahr el-Ghazal
  • The reversal of fortune
  • A pause in Cairo
  • After Cairo
  • The Plantae Tinneanae
  • The White Nile excursionof 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.