AfTeR – The African Text: Representing Africa in Imperial Russia (1850-1917)

Rutskii, P.G.: To the Oases of the Sahara and across Italy

The book features thirty-two illustrations of African landscapes and people. It is divided into nineteen chapters, prefaced by the author’s introduction and an initial overview of the journey’s circumstances. Chapters One to Nine report travelling around Europe, focusing on Warsaw, Vienna, the Austrian Alps, Italy, Venice, Italian Switzerland, and Marseille. Chapters Ten to Seventeen are devoted to African cities […]

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Koptev, A.B.: Memoirs on the Journey to Constantinople, Cairo and Jerusalem in 1887

The book is divided into seven chapters and it includes a preface in which the author explains that in March 1888, after leaving Odessa to reach Constantinople, Alexandria and Cairo, he travelled also to Jaffa and Jerusalem. He addresses the reader, claiming that though his travel notes may perhaps be uninteresting, they are definitely “true, fair, and impartial” […]

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