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Camel tracks : a history of exploration, warfare and policing in the modern imperial age / Andrew Goudie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goudie, Andrew, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Camels--History.
- Camels.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 262 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Society for Libyan Studies, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Background
- Biology and Evolution
- Domestication
- Distribution
- History and Archaeology
- Historical Importance of the Camel
- Camels and Travel in Extreme Environments
- Camels and Trade
- Camels and Pilgrimage
- Camels and Nomadic Societies
- Camels and War
- Camels in the Modern World
- Australian Camels
- USA Camels
- Numbers
- History of Research
- Introduction
- Count Buffon
- George Perkins Marsh
- Scope of the book and its main themes
- ch. 2 Camels and the Exploration History of North Africa
- Introduction: The North and East African Deserts
- Charles-Jacques Poncet and James Bruce
- William George Browne
- Friedrich Hornemann
- Hugh Clapperton
- George Francis Lyon
- Rene Caillie
- Heinrich Barth
- Sir Samuel and Lady Baker
- Gustav Nachtigal
- Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs
- Robert Murdoch Smith and Edwin Porcher
- AlexindeTinne
- Henri Duveyrier
- Oskar Lenz and Camille Douls
- Fernand Foureau
- James Harrison
- Rene Chudeau and Conrad Kilian
- Andre Von Dumreicher
- W.J. Harding King
- Charles Furlong
- Jean Tilho
- Hanns Vischer
- Nowell Barnard De Lancey Forth
- Arthur Weigall
- George Murray
- Angus Buchanan
- Ahmed Hassanein
- Ludovico Mariano Nesbitt
- Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave
- Douglas Newbold and W.B.K. Shaw
- Francis Rodd
- Theodore Monod
- ch. 3 Arabia, the Middle East and Iran
- Jean-BaptisteTavernier
- Joseph Pitts
- Carsten Niebuhr
- Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
- James Raymond Wellsted
- Sir Richard Burton
- Henry Martyn Field
- Lewis Pelly
- William Gifford Palgrave
- Samuel Barrett Miles
- Anne and Wilfrid Blunt
- Charles Montagu Doughty
- Theodore and Mabel Bent
- John Fryer Keene
- Percy Cox
- Gertrude Bell
- `Jack' Philby
- Bertram Thomas
- Wilfred Thesiger
- ch. 4 Epilogue
- Views on Camels
- Camel Catastrophes
- The Speed, Range, and Load-Carrying Capacity of Camels
- Premature Deaths
- Concluding Remarks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781914268014
- 1914268016
- OCLC:
- 1272873559
- Publisher Number:
- 99991092154
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