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Wells, William - The Heroine of the White Nile
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| Schrijver: | Wells, William |
| Titel: | The Heroine of the White Nile |
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| Uitgever: | Hunt & Eaton, New York 1871, first edition |
| Bijzonderheid: | rare bio Alexandrine Tinne! |
| Prijs: | € 500,00 |
| Meer info | “Or What a Woman Did and Dared: A Sketch of the Remarkable Travels and Esperiences of Miss Alexandrine Tinne”. 8vo, publisher's decorated cloth, rubbed and lightly soiled. 207 pages with 2 engravings, mellowing. Rare contemporary –and only?- biography of the Dutch female explorer. Alexandrine Tinne, best known for her investigations of the course of the Nile River, made at a time when it was unusual for European women to travel in tropical Africa. Tinne was primarily concerned with mapping the White Nile (in the Sudan) and its western tributaries. In 1861, on her first expedition up the Nile (on which she was accompanied by her mother and aunt), she traveled as far as Gondokoro (in the Sudan) and then turned west along the Bahr al-Ghazāl (Gazelle River) and the Sobat River to investigate the extent of the Nile basin toward Lake Chad. In 1863 she again explored the upper Nile, traveling into the Zande region of the northeastern Congo River basin. She was murdered by Tuareg tribesmen in the Libyan Desert while traveling from Tripoli in an attempt to reach Lake Chad and then journey from it eastward to the Nile. According to Livingstone she was the greatest … |
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