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 / / Robert Joost Willink [[electronic resource]]
| 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 / / Robert Joost Willink [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Willink Joost |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (455 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 962.403 |
| Soggetto topico | Travel / General |
| ISBN |
1-283-33448-8
9786613334480 90-485-1490-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781464503321 |
Willink Joost
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| Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, 2011 | ||
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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 / / Robert Joost Willink [[electronic resource]]
| 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 / / Robert Joost Willink [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Willink Joost |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (455 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 962.403 |
| Soggetto topico | Travel / General |
| ISBN |
1-283-33448-8
9786613334480 90-485-1490-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811191603321 |
Willink Joost
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| Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, 2011 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Hidden New York [[electronic resource] ] : a guide to places that matter / / Marci Reaven and Steve Zeitlin ; photographs by Martha Cooper and other great photographers of New York City's splendid places ; research and interviews by Elena Martínez ; contributors Caitlin Van Dusen ... [et al.]
| Hidden New York [[electronic resource] ] : a guide to places that matter / / Marci Reaven and Steve Zeitlin ; photographs by Martha Cooper and other great photographers of New York City's splendid places ; research and interviews by Elena Martínez ; contributors Caitlin Van Dusen ... [et al.] |
| Autore | Reaven Marci <1954-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J., : Rivergate Books, an imprint of Rutgers University Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
| Disciplina | 917.47/10444 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ZeitlinSteven J |
| Soggetto topico | Travel / General |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-24428-7
9786611244286 0-8135-4124-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- URBAN GATHERINGS -- CITY PLAY -- URBAN PALATE -- ART AND MUSIC, CITY STYLE -- METROPOLITAN MEANDERINGS -- URBAN NATURE -- CITY SPIRITS -- URBAN REMEMBRANCE -- Notes -- About the Authors and Contributors -- Planning an Outing -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452346703321 |
Reaven Marci <1954->
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| New Brunswick, N.J., : Rivergate Books, an imprint of Rutgers University Press, c2006 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Hidden New York [[electronic resource] ] : a guide to places that matter / / Marci Reaven and Steve Zeitlin ; photographs by Martha Cooper and other great photographers of New York City's splendid places ; research and interviews by Elena Martínez ; contributors Caitlin Van Dusen ... [et al.]
| Hidden New York [[electronic resource] ] : a guide to places that matter / / Marci Reaven and Steve Zeitlin ; photographs by Martha Cooper and other great photographers of New York City's splendid places ; research and interviews by Elena Martínez ; contributors Caitlin Van Dusen ... [et al.] |
| Autore | Reaven Marci <1954-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J., : Rivergate Books, an imprint of Rutgers University Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
| Disciplina | 917.47/10444 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ZeitlinSteven J |
| Soggetto topico | Travel / General |
| ISBN |
1-281-24428-7
9786611244286 0-8135-4124-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- URBAN GATHERINGS -- CITY PLAY -- URBAN PALATE -- ART AND MUSIC, CITY STYLE -- METROPOLITAN MEANDERINGS -- URBAN NATURE -- CITY SPIRITS -- URBAN REMEMBRANCE -- Notes -- About the Authors and Contributors -- Planning an Outing -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777762203321 |
Reaven Marci <1954->
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| New Brunswick, N.J., : Rivergate Books, an imprint of Rutgers University Press, c2006 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Isolarion [[electronic resource] ] : a different Oxford journey / / James Attlee
| Isolarion [[electronic resource] ] : a different Oxford journey / / James Attlee |
| Autore | Attlee James |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
| Disciplina | 942.5/7 |
| Soggetto topico | Travel / General |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-95906-5
9786611959067 0-226-03095-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Isolarion -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- FIRST PARTITION -- Embarkation -- Purification -- Of Music and Cannibalism -- Doing My Part -- The Melancholy Pilgrim -- Bread and Circuses -- Boucherie Chatar -- Designated Desire-Lines: Planning a New Road -- Further Purification of the Pilgrim -- Enrobed -- Of Love and Jewels -- Behind the Blue Door (Inside the Private Shop) -- From the Literal to the Allegorical and Back -- Wittgenstein's Lion and a Cappuccino Sea -- Virtual Streets and Gateways: The Plans Revisited -- Cosmonauts and Coleslaw -- St. Edmund's Well and a Faded Warning -- SECOND PARTITION -- Making Do and Getting By -- Egyptian Vagabonds, Afternoon Men, and the Malus Genius of Our Nation -- Losing the Key -- Bed-Sits and Birārdari -- What They Think You Can Bear: Football, Religion, and Nightmares on the Cowley Road -- Between Two Fires: Pulling the Dragon's Teeth -- Melancholy, an American Photographer, and the Irish Writer -- Cowley Road Calling -- Just Less Lucky -- Dreadlocks and Rim-Shots: Reggae at the Zodiac -- Of Lepers, Lunatics, and Layabouts -- Dancing Sand and Zum-Zum Water -- Junior Jihad -- Of Books and Bitumen -- Carnival -- Returning to the Source -- THIRD PARTITION -- A Journey in the Hinterland -- Into the Furnace -- Blessings and Tribulation -- A Graveyard Reborn -- Finding a Clue -- Of Bats and Mutton Curry -- Margaret's Story -- A Hidden Pool -- The Liquid Kingdom -- The Gateways Close -- Of Robots, Wild Rhubarb, and the New Oxford Way -- Things Fall Apart: An Ending of Sorts |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454475803321 |
Attlee James
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| Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Isolarion [[electronic resource] ] : a different Oxford journey / / James Attlee
| Isolarion [[electronic resource] ] : a different Oxford journey / / James Attlee |
| Autore | Attlee James |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
| Disciplina | 942.5/7 |
| Soggetto topico | Travel / General |
| Soggetto non controllato | pilgrimage, travel, journey, understanding, psychology, psychological, city, urban, family, work, workplace, daily life, 15th century, map, fieldwork, history, historical, cowley road, leper, hospital, health, healthcare, workhouse, medieval, healing, myth, mythology, tourist, oxford, modern, cosmopolitan, neighborhood, multicultural, culture, cultural, diversity, homogenization, homogenous |
| ISBN |
1-281-95906-5
9786611959067 0-226-03095-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Isolarion -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- FIRST PARTITION -- Embarkation -- Purification -- Of Music and Cannibalism -- Doing My Part -- The Melancholy Pilgrim -- Bread and Circuses -- Boucherie Chatar -- Designated Desire-Lines: Planning a New Road -- Further Purification of the Pilgrim -- Enrobed -- Of Love and Jewels -- Behind the Blue Door (Inside the Private Shop) -- From the Literal to the Allegorical and Back -- Wittgenstein's Lion and a Cappuccino Sea -- Virtual Streets and Gateways: The Plans Revisited -- Cosmonauts and Coleslaw -- St. Edmund's Well and a Faded Warning -- SECOND PARTITION -- Making Do and Getting By -- Egyptian Vagabonds, Afternoon Men, and the Malus Genius of Our Nation -- Losing the Key -- Bed-Sits and Birārdari -- What They Think You Can Bear: Football, Religion, and Nightmares on the Cowley Road -- Between Two Fires: Pulling the Dragon's Teeth -- Melancholy, an American Photographer, and the Irish Writer -- Cowley Road Calling -- Just Less Lucky -- Dreadlocks and Rim-Shots: Reggae at the Zodiac -- Of Lepers, Lunatics, and Layabouts -- Dancing Sand and Zum-Zum Water -- Junior Jihad -- Of Books and Bitumen -- Carnival -- Returning to the Source -- THIRD PARTITION -- A Journey in the Hinterland -- Into the Furnace -- Blessings and Tribulation -- A Graveyard Reborn -- Finding a Clue -- Of Bats and Mutton Curry -- Margaret's Story -- A Hidden Pool -- The Liquid Kingdom -- The Gateways Close -- Of Robots, Wild Rhubarb, and the New Oxford Way -- Things Fall Apart: An Ending of Sorts |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782423903321 |
Attlee James
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| Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Isolarion : a different Oxford journey / / James Attlee
| Isolarion : a different Oxford journey / / James Attlee |
| Autore | Attlee James |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
| Disciplina | 942.5/7 |
| Soggetto topico | Travel / General |
| Soggetto non controllato | pilgrimage, travel, journey, understanding, psychology, psychological, city, urban, family, work, workplace, daily life, 15th century, map, fieldwork, history, historical, cowley road, leper, hospital, health, healthcare, workhouse, medieval, healing, myth, mythology, tourist, oxford, modern, cosmopolitan, neighborhood, multicultural, culture, cultural, diversity, homogenization, homogenous |
| ISBN |
9786611959067
9781281959065 1281959065 9780226030951 0226030954 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Isolarion -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- FIRST PARTITION -- Embarkation -- Purification -- Of Music and Cannibalism -- Doing My Part -- The Melancholy Pilgrim -- Bread and Circuses -- Boucherie Chatar -- Designated Desire-Lines: Planning a New Road -- Further Purification of the Pilgrim -- Enrobed -- Of Love and Jewels -- Behind the Blue Door (Inside the Private Shop) -- From the Literal to the Allegorical and Back -- Wittgenstein's Lion and a Cappuccino Sea -- Virtual Streets and Gateways: The Plans Revisited -- Cosmonauts and Coleslaw -- St. Edmund's Well and a Faded Warning -- SECOND PARTITION -- Making Do and Getting By -- Egyptian Vagabonds, Afternoon Men, and the Malus Genius of Our Nation -- Losing the Key -- Bed-Sits and Birārdari -- What They Think You Can Bear: Football, Religion, and Nightmares on the Cowley Road -- Between Two Fires: Pulling the Dragon's Teeth -- Melancholy, an American Photographer, and the Irish Writer -- Cowley Road Calling -- Just Less Lucky -- Dreadlocks and Rim-Shots: Reggae at the Zodiac -- Of Lepers, Lunatics, and Layabouts -- Dancing Sand and Zum-Zum Water -- Junior Jihad -- Of Books and Bitumen -- Carnival -- Returning to the Source -- THIRD PARTITION -- A Journey in the Hinterland -- Into the Furnace -- Blessings and Tribulation -- A Graveyard Reborn -- Finding a Clue -- Of Bats and Mutton Curry -- Margaret's Story -- A Hidden Pool -- The Liquid Kingdom -- The Gateways Close -- Of Robots, Wild Rhubarb, and the New Oxford Way -- Things Fall Apart: An Ending of Sorts |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910954712603321 |
Attlee James
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| Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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