The engraving of the portraits can be download by click
Jules Crévaux (1847-1882)
Marine doctor, the most famous explorer of Guyanas and of Amazone
bassin. He disembark at Cayenne in 69 and for 10 years he will cros amazone
aera. He is killed in 82 during a expedition in Paraguay forest, slaughtered
in the chaco.
Volumes 40 (1880) et 41 (1881) : Guyane, De Cayenne aux Andes en 1878-79
Present Biblio (In french):
En radeau sur l'Orénoque (Phébus),
Le mendiant de l'Eldorado (Payot/voyageurs)
Guillaume Lejean
Volume 1 (1860) : East Africa,
Discovering of the african Great Lakes in 1858-59
Volume 1 (1860) : The albanian travel, at Montenegro, at Herzegovina during
1858
Volume 2 & 3(1860-61) : East Africa, "Voyage dans l'Afrique orientale
en 1860"
Volume 5 (1862) : East and Central Africa (Gondokoro, the white Nile)
in 1860
Volume 7 (1863) : West Africa, Travel in Kordofan in 1860
Volume 9 (1864) : East Africa, travel in Abyssiny in 1863
Volume 11 (1865) : East Africa, travel in Taka (hight Nubia) in 1864
Volume 12 (1865) et 15 (1867): East Africa, travel in Abyssiny in 1862-63
Volume 15 (1867) : Travel hight Nubia: Revolt and sack of Kassala in 1865
Volume 16 (1867) : Irak, travel in Babylonia in 1848-60
Volume 18 (1868) et 21 (1870) : India, the Pendjab and the Kashmir in
1866
Volume 26 (1873) : Traveling in Bulgary in 1867 and a winter in AntiTaurus
in 1866
Nordenskiöld
Volume 33 (1877) : Swedish
Polar journey in 1875
Volume 44 (1882) : The Vega journey around Asia and Europe in 1878-80
N. Prjévalsky
Volume 34 (1877) : Travel
in Mongolia and in Tangoute's land 1870-73
Volume 53 et 54 (1887) : Mongolia from Zaissansk to Thibet and Hoang-Ho
springs
(Fl. Jaune), 3rd travel of M Prjevalsky in central Asia 1879-80
Livingstone David (1813-1873)
The famous roadrunner of central and east Africa. He start his travels
in the south in 53; then he compete to the discovering race of the sources
of Nile in 65, loose his wife in a journey in Tanganika, but continues
his travels. He mysteriously disappear in 70, and is found again in 72
by Stanley, but refuse to come back. reached by illness, he dead of exhaust
in 73.
Volume 13 (1866) : Zambeze
and its tributaries, travel of 1858-64
Volume 30 (1875) : Central Africa, The last diary of Livingstone from
1866 to 73
Present Biblio (in french): Le dernier Journal de Livingstone (Arlea)
Henry Stanley
Volume 25, 1873 : Travel searching
Livingstone in central Africa (in 1871-72)
Volume 36, 1878 : Through the mysterious continent (in 1874-77)
capitaine Speke
The Upper Nile decouvreur
Volume 9 (1864) : The sources of Nile, travel diary of discovering 1860-63
Richard Burton (No
portrait available)
The other grand-decouvreur of Nile
Volume 2 (1860) : Travel to
large Lakes of East-Africa in 1857-59
Volume 6 (1862) : USA, a travel in All-Saints-city, Capital of the Mormons
in 1861
G. Verschuur
Volume 66 (1893) : Travelling
in the 3 Guyana in 1892 and the Curaçao island in 1893
Volume 81-82 (1900) : Ceylan Island in 1897
Volume 1905 (Nouvelle série): Pondichéry Headcity of the french
India
Elisée Reclus
Volume 1 (1860) : Parts of a travel at New-Orleans in 1855
Volume 2 (1860) : Trips in the Dauphiné (1850-1861)
Volume 13 (1866) : The Sicilia and the Etna eruption of 1865
Volume 28 (1874) : Travel to the mining region of occidental Transylania
(1873)
A. Reclus
Volume 39 et 40 (1880) : Exploration of the Panama and Darien Isthmus
in 1876-78
Désiré Charnay (no portrait)
Volume 5 (1862) : Mexico,
a travel in Yucatan 1860 - 61
Volume 10 (1864) : Madagascar as the crows flies in 1862
Volume 34 (1877) : Through Pampas and Andin range: from Montvideo to Santa
Rosa in 1876
Volume 39 (1880) : Indonesia, Six weeks in Java in 1878-79
Volume 39 (1880) : Six months in Australia in 1878
Volume 42 (1881) : My discovering in Mexico and in central Amerca in 1880
Volume 53 (1887) : My last expedition at Yucatan in 1886
Savorgnan de Brazza (portrait on side)
Volume 54 (1887) : Travel in west Africa 1875-87
