AfTeR – The African Text: Representing Africa in Imperial Russia (1850-1917)
In the introduction, the author of the article states that at a 1909 conference, Prof. Penck contradicted Prof. Grund regarding the presence of loess in North African desert areas. In his article, the author aims at clarifying this issue by explaining that […]
Dranitsyn, D.A.: A Note about Loess in North Africa Read Post »
The publication consists of eight chapters, covering Puzanov’s whole journey through Egypt and Sudan: From Black to Red Waters, Essay on the Red Sea Coastline of Sudan, Port Sudan, On the Coral Reefs of Port Sudan, Suakin, On the Mountains of Ethiopia, Khartoum, Life in Khartoum and the Journey Back. At the beginning of his treatise, the scholar underlines that […]
Puzanov, I.I.: Essays on North-Eastern Sudan Read Post »
The book is a recollection of Gorodetskii’s travel to British East Africa, which lasted approximately three and a half months, from the end of 1911 to the end of February 1912. In the preface, the author states the influence of famous Western colonial writers […]
Gorodetskii, V.V.: In the African Jungle. A Hunter’s Diary Read Post »
The book includes photographic illustrations and an introduction where the author clarifies that these travel notes focus on the fauna of the places he visited, which are virtually unknown to the Russian reader due to the almost complete lack of specialised literature […]
The aim of this pamphlet is to promote Helwan as a place for healing from different health issues and, especially, to advertise the sanatorium of doctor L. Kushnir. Built by the doctor in 1904, the sanatorium had progressively grown to include also a boarding house, a music hall, and a chemico-microscopy laboratory […]
Anon. – Helwan, Near Cairo. A Winter Sanatorium in the Country of the Pyramids Read Post »
The book consists of daily diary entries of variable length, which provide detailed ethnographic data and descriptions of the flora and fauna of East Africa […]
Sokolov, I.I.: Diary of the Expedition to Kenya and Uganda in 1914 Read Post »
The piece is an account of Nikitin’s expedition to German and British East Africa. The author recollects the main stops along the journey, which began in Odessa […]
Nikitin, V.N.: On the Shores of Lake Victoria Read Post »
Born into a Ukrainian noble family of Lithuanian descent, Vladimir (Volodymyr) Narbut was a Russian and Soviet poet and literary critic, a member of the Acmeist group. His relationship with Africa dates back to 1912, when he left Russia […]
In the African Forests is an adaptation of the novel My Kalulu, Prince, King, and Slave by Henry Stanley (1873). In a footnote, Karintsev presents the events he narrates as a true story, which had been told to Stanley during his time in Zanzibar […]
Karintsev (Dudel’) N.A.: In the African Forests Read Post »
The book features a foreword, a bibliography and a map, and it is organised into thematic chapters. In the foreword, the author addresses the prevalence of misinformation surrounding Angola, a Portuguese colony in Africa. Iurovetskii suggests that Angola might hold significance as a potential home for the Jewish population […]
Iurovetskii, M.I.: Angola. The Land Offered by Portugal to the Jews for Colonisation Read Post »