The Fateful Journey The Expedition of Alexine Tinne and Theodor von Heuglin in Sudan 1863 1864 1st Edition by Robert Joost Willink ISBN 9089643524 978-9089643520

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ISBN 10: 9089643524 

ISBN 13: 978-9089643520

Author: Robert Joost Willink

 This compelling, richly illustrated work recounts the African journeys of the intrepid Dutch traveller Alexine Tinne (1835-1869). Heiress to a huge fortune –she was at the time the richest woman in the country – and bored with the royal court intrigues in The Hague, Tinne left for Egypt and Sudan accompanied by her mother Henriette Tinne-Van Capellen, ultimately settling in Khartoum. On her expedition in 1862-64, Tinne was joined by the German zoologist Theodor von Heuglin: the whole party set out for the as yet uncharted Bahr-el-Ghazal, hoping to explore that region and ascertain how far westward the Nile basin extended.
After four years of research in the Tinne archives, including hitherto unknown correspondence, photos and other documents, Willink presents a dramatic account of Tinne’s eventful expedition, casting new light on the events which ultimately ended with Tinne’s murder, most likely by the tribesmen who believed there was gold hidden in her water tanks. In addition, Willink casts a new light on the excitement and the dangers of travel in colonial Africa’s uncharted territories before and after Tinne’s enterprise, revealing to what extent her gruesome death had been foreshadowed in the earlier years and how it would reverberate in the years to come.
An accomplished photographer and collector of artefacts, Tinne left a wealth of material from her travels, and many items are reproduced here in colour, bearing testimony to her fascination with Africa.

Table of contents: 

• Front Matter
• Table of Contents
• Prologue
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 1 – Sudan: Land of adventure, commerce, and science
• CHAPTER 2 – The White Nile and Khartoum
• CHAPTER 3 – Preparing the journey
• CHAPTER 4 – Reaching the Bahr el-Ghazal
• CHAPTER 5 – Beyond the Bahr el-Ghazal
• CHAPTER 6 – A reversal of fortune
• CHAPTER 7 – A stopover in Cairo
• CHAPTER 8 – After Cairo
• Epilogue – The Plantae Tinneanae
• APPENDIX 1 – The journey of the Tinne expedition up the White Nile
• APPENDIX 2 – Khartoum in the summer of 1862
• APPENDIX 3 – Khartoum
• APPENDIX 4 – Sudan
• APPENDIX 5 – Letters by A. Tinne from Khartoum and Berber
• APPENDIX 6 – News from Cairo
• APPENDIX 7 – Petermann’s maps of 1865 and 1869
• Explanatory notes on sources consulted
• Acknowledgements
• Source notes
• Maps of Egypt and Sudan
• Catalogue – Ethnographic collection
• Description of the Tinne-Heuglin collection
• Catalogue notes
• Catalogue of the Alexine Tinne collection
• Catalogue of the Von Heuglin collection

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