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100 1 _aDuveyrier, Henri,
_d1840-1892
245 1 0 _aJournal de route de Henri Duveyrier
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aAdd head of title: Sahara algérien et tunisien.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-08-05
508 _aGalo Flordelis (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France/Gallica)
520 _a"Journal de route de Henri Duveyrier" by Henri Duveyrier is a travel journal written in the mid-19th century. It records a scientific and ethnographic journey across the Algerian and Tunisian Sahara, mixing precise route notes with observations on peoples, languages, flora, fauna, water sources, and oasis life. This edition frames the field notes with an editorial preface and a biographical sketch that situate the expedition and its methods. The beginning of the volume presents a foreword explaining the posthumous publication and light editing of the field notebooks, followed by a biography tracing the explorer’s Provençal family, early schooling in Germany, love of languages and natural history, guidance from prominent scholars, a formative Algerian trip, mentorship by Heinrich Barth, and thorough preparation to travel openly as a Christian. The journal then opens at Biskra (January–February), where the traveler lists the diverse sub-Saharan communities present, studies local mollusks and thermal waters, checks time and latitude, and notes Roman remains. Setting out southward, he crosses Chegga and Oumm-et-Tiour to the Oued-Righ and the Souf, describing dunes, winds, vegetation (drin, retam, arta), fauna tracks, and the labor of desert travel with guides and camels. He sketches the oases and towns—Merhaier, Guemar, Tarhzout, Kouinin, and El-Oued—with remarks on irrigation, palm culture, prices, religious affiliations, and local traditions of origin. Turning toward Ouargla via Sidi el-Bachir and Sayyal, he encounters Touareg on the move and hears of tensions between tribes before traversing hamada and sebkha. The opening section closes with his arrival at Ouargla, a first survey of its kasbah ruins, narrow vaulted streets, mosques, tribal quarters, Mozabite colony, and the populace’s complaints about abuses by local notables. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: A. Challamel, 1905
653 _aTunisia -- Description and travel
653 _aAlgeria -- Description and travel
653 _aSahara -- Description and travel
700 1 _aMaunoir, Ch.
_q(Charles),
_d1830-1901
700 1 _aSchirmer, Henri,
_d1862-1931
856 4 _uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5790532v
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76633
999 _c117358
_d117358