Touring in extremis: Travel and adventure in the Congo

Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century: Filling the Blank Spaces

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 37-54

  Donovan, Stephen ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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DOI: 10.7135/UPO9781843317692.003     Document Type: Chapter

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