Author: László Almásy
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3756212939
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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László Almásy is best known for his fictional character in the English Patient movie, but he was a real life desert explorer, one of a handful who were searching out what is in the middle of the last remaining blank spot of the map of the world, the central Libyan Desert. Almásy was particularly interested in the myth of the lost Zerzura Oasis, he organised a number of expeditions to the central Libyan Desert, pioneering the use of aeroplane in desert exploration. He claimed to have identified a valley with vegetation in the Gilf Kebir with the mythical Zerzura, however more importantly he discovered a number of spectacular prehistoric paintings, including the famed Cave of Swimmers. He wrote three books on his travels in Hungarian, all of which appeared in the Library of the Hungarian Geographical Society series. This first book, With Motorcar to the Sudan (1929) describes a 1926 motorcar journey through Egypt and Sudan, his first encounter with Africa. Unlike his later two books, this one contains no dramatic accounts of exploration or discoveries, however it is a well written and amusing travelogue describing his first experiences (and blunders) while driving in the sand with a Steyr VII from Alexandria to Khartoum (the first such accomplishment by an ordinary automobile), then further south to the Dinder for a three week hunting trip. The crossing of the Nubian Desert in Sudan was a prelude to many of his greater desert voyages, and the narrative provides interesting glimpses into Almásy's character and thinking.
Author: R. Collins
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349069604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Author: Charles Robert Gibson
Publisher:
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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Author: Heather J. Sharkey
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520929364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Histories written in the aftermath of empire have often featured conquerors and peasant rebels but have said little about the vast staffs of locally recruited clerks, technicians, teachers, and medics who made colonialism work day-to-day. Even as these workers maintained the colonial state, they dreamed of displacing imperial power. This book examines the history of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1898-1956) and the Republic of Sudan that followed in order to understand how colonialism worked on the ground, affected local cultures, influenced the rise of nationalism, and shaped the postcolonial nation-state. Relying on a rich cache of Sudanese Arabic literary sources, including poetry, essays, and memoirs, as well as on colonial documents and photographs, this perceptive study examines colonialism from the viewpoint of those who lived and worked in its midst. By integrating the case of Sudan with material on other countries, particularly India, Sharkey gives her book broad comparative appeal. She shows that colonial legacies—such as inflexible borders, atomized multi-ethnic populations, and autocratic governing structures—have persisted, hobbling postcolonial nation-states. Thus countries like Sudan are still living with colonialism, struggling to achieve consensus and stability within borders that a fallen empire has left behind.
Author: United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board
Publisher:
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Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
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Author: Ethel Stefana Stevens Drower
Publisher:
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Category : Sudan
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Author: Hugh Chisholm
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Author: Hugh Chisholm
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 2228
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Author: Heiko Riemer
Publisher: Heinrich-Barth-Institut
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Category : Eastern question (Balkan)
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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