{"product_id":"journey-white-nile-gazelle-river-heuglin-vol-1","title":"Journey to the White Nile and the Gazelle River, Vol. I (1869) — Theodor von Heuglin","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1862 the German naturalist Theodor von Heuglin set out from Khartoum with the botanist Hermann Steudner, first into East Kordofan, then up the White Nile and the Bahr el-Ghazal with the Tinne expedition. This is his own account, published in Leipzig in 1869, now in English for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume I covers September 1862 to March 1863: Khartoum under Turco-Egyptian rule, the hills of the Arash-Kol, the Hassaniya and Baqqara Arabs, the slave-trading base at Kaka, the Shilluk capital at Fashoda, Lake No and the long struggle through the papyrus to Meshra el-Req.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea new introduction on Heuglin, the expedition, the slave trade he witnessed, and the language of his time;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe original plates and the colour route map of 1869;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeorg Schweinfurth's on-the-spot drawings of Meshra el-Req and a Dinka cattle camp;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eall of Heuglin's footnotes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated directly from the German original of 1869.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Theodor von Heuglin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67602720882936,"sku":"EN-900112","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/heuglin-white-nile-vol1-cover-en.jpg?v=1791518512","url":"https:\/\/nilebookstore.com\/products\/journey-white-nile-gazelle-river-heuglin-vol-1","provider":"Nile Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}