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Sahărâ und Sûdân : Ergebnisse sechsjähriger Reisen in Afrika by Nachtigal, Gustav, 1834-1885. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Sahǎrâ und Sûdân (Sahara and Sudan) is a detailed account of the six-year journey across the Sahara undertaken in 1869-75 by German explorer Gustav Nachtigal (1834-85). The son of a Lutheran pastor from the town of Eichstedt in Saxony-Anhalt, Nachtigal trained as a doctor and for several years practiced as a military surgeon in Cologne. After contracting a severe lung disease, in October 1862 he moved to Bona (present-day Annaba), Algeria, in hopes of regaining his health in the warm, dry climate. The following year he settled in Tunis, where he lived for several years, practiced medicine, and learned Arabic. He was about to return to Germany when he was asked, by the German explorer Gerhard Rohlfs, to undertake a mission to the kingdom of Bornu, in the northern part of present-day Nigeria, on behalf of King William I of Prussia. William wanted to thank the sultan of Bornu for the kindnesses he had shown to the German explorer Heinrich Barth (1821-65). Nachtigal accepted the assignment and in February 1869 set out across the Sahara with six men and eight camels. Volume 1 of Sahǎrâ und Sûdân, published in 1879, recounts the first part of the journey, from Tripoli (present-day Libya)

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Author

Nachtigal, Gustav, 1834-1885.

Publisher

Weidmann, 1879-1889.

Published

1889

Language

DE

Category

nonfiction