Travel Sketches from Liberia

Johann Büttikofer's 19th Century Rainforest Explorations in West Africa
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-23347-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 870 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1406 g

Reihe: Sources for African History

In the 1880s a Swiss-born biologist, Johann Büttikofer, while working for the Royal Museum of Natural History in Leiden, The Netherlands, carried out two extended expeditions to Liberia, West Africa. In 1890 he published the results of his work in German in two-volumes, entitled Reisebilder aus Liberia (Travel Sketches from Liberia).

Büttikofer worked extensively in the forested regions of coastal Liberia and made the acquaintance of many prominent Liberians and other personalities of that era. His zoological work there is actually exceeded by his detailed descriptions of the state of Liberia some 50 years following ist colonization by freed American slaves and their descendents. It constitutes the first comprehensive monograph on the Republic of Liberia.

Zielgruppe

This publication is of particular interest to historians, anthropologists, political scientists, conservation biologists, Africana scholars and the citizenry of the Republic of Liberia and its neighbors in West Africa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dop, Henk

Robinson, Phillip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Über Autor(innen)

Robinson, Phillip
Phillip T. Robinson, M.S., D.V.M. (1972), Michigan State University, is a veterinary surgeon who has been engaged in wildlife conservation work in Liberia since 1968. He has conducted field studies in Liberia under the sponsorship of the World Wildlife Fund, National Geographic Society and World Bank.

Dop, Henk
Henk Dop, M.Sc. (1982), is a biologist trained at the Free University of Amsterdam. He has been engaged in Africa-related studies and activities for the past three decades. He worked with the Forestry Development Authority in Liberia in 1986-87 and has since then remained active in conservation work in that country.

Henk Dop, M.Sc. (1982), is a biologist trained at the Free University of Amsterdam. He has been engaged in Africa-related studies and activities for the past three decades. He worked with the Forestry Development Authority in Liberia in 1986-87 and has since then remained active in conservation work in that country.

Phillip T. Robinson, M.S., D.V.M. (1972), Michigan State University, is a veterinary surgeon and wildlife biologist who has been engaged in wildlife conservation work in Liberia since 1968. He has conducted field studies in Liberia under the sponsorship of the World Wildlife Fund, National Geographic Society and World Bank, and he is on the research faculty at the University of Toledo (Ohio).