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Signatur: Erd 185 Kea
Keay, John:
Exzentriker auf Reisen um die Welt. Sieben Porträts. Aus dem Englischen von Norbert Hofmann. 1. Auflage. - Berlin: Ed. Tiamat 2007. 222 S. Mit Abbildungen.
(Critica diabolis ; 146.)

Originaltitel: Eccentric travellers.
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Porträtiert werden die folgenden Reisenden: Philip Thicknesse: »A year's journey through France and Part of Spain« (1777) - Thomas Manning (in George Bogle): »Narrative of the mission of George Bogle to Tibet, and of the journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa« (1876) - James Holman: »The Narrative of a journey undertaken in the years 1819, 1820 and 1821 through France, Italy, Savoy, Switzerland, parts of Germany bordering on the Rhine, Holland, and the Netherlands« (1822) und »Travels through Russia, Siberia, Poland, Austria, Saxony, Prussia, Hanover, etc. etc. undertaken during the years 1822, 1823, and 1824« (1825) und »A voyage round the world, including travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America etc, etc, from 1827 to 1832« (1834) - Charles Waterton: »Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824« (1825) - Joseph Wolff: »Researches and missionary labours among the Jews, Mohammedans, and other sects, by the Rev. Jos. Wolff during his travels between the years 1831 and 1834« (1835) und »Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the Years 1843-1845, to ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly« (1845) - William Gifford Palgrave: »Personal narrative of a year's journey through Central and Eastern Arabia, 1862 - 63« (1865) - Gottlieb Wilhelm (William) Leitner: »Results of a tour in Dardistan, Kashmir, Little Tibet, Ladak, Zanskar &c« (1877) und »Dardistan in 1866, 1886, and 1893, being an account of the history, religions, customs, legends, fables, and songs of Gilgit ...« (1890).