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- A Journey to Inner Africa
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- 2020
- Published by: Amherst College Press
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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In 1847, Russian military engineer and diplomat Egor Petrovich Kovalevsky embarked on a journey through what is today Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia, recording his impressions of a region in flux. Invited by Egyptian ruler Mohammed Ali to look for gold and construct mines in the area between the Blue and White Nile, Kovalevsky captured the social milieu of both elites and ordinary people as well as compiled a rich record of the Upper Nile’s climate and natural resources. A Journey to Inner Africa, masterfully translated into English for the first time by Anna Aslanyan, is both a tale of encounter between Russia and northern Africa and an important document in the history and development of the Russian imperial project.
Contributions by Egor Kovalevsky, Anna Aslanyan, Sergey Glebov, David Schimmelpenninck, Mukaram Hhana, and Michal Wasiucionek
Contributions by Egor Kovalevsky, Anna Aslanyan, Sergey Glebov, David Schimmelpenninck, Mukaram Hhana, and Michal Wasiucionek
Table of Contents
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- Half-Title Page
- p. i
- Copyright Page
- p. ii
- Dedication
- p. v
- Frontispiece
- p. vi
- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Part I: Egypt and Nubia
- pp. 1-2
- Chapter I: Alexandria
- pp. 3-14
- Chapter V: From Minya to Esneh
- pp. 51-58
- Chapter VII: Nubia along the Nile
- pp. 71-78
- Chapter X: Khartoum and Sennaar
- pp. 109-118
- Part II: The Land of the Negroes
- pp. 125-126
- Chapter I: New Vistas
- pp. 127-136
- Chapter II: Benishangul and Kamamil
- pp. 137-144
- Chapter VII: The Negroes
- pp. 187-204
- Chapter VIII: Our Return Journey: Diseases
- pp. 205-218
Additional Information
ISBN
9781943208173
Related ISBN(s)
9781943208166
MARC Record
OCLC
1273428901
Launched on MUSE
2021-11-03
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC