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African expedition. In 1883, Holub, along with his new wife Rosa (1865–1958) and six European guides, set out to do what no one had done before: explore the entire length of Africa from Cape Town all the way to
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Victoria Falls. A few Pages from the Diary of Emil Holub, M.D., written during His third Trip into the Interior of Southern Africa (Grahamstown: no publisher, reprinted with a foreword by Jaroslav Olša, jr. Bulawayo: Books of Zimbabwe
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to practise medicine. After eight months, Holub set out in a convoy of local hunters on a two-month experimental expedition, or "scientific safari", where he began to assemble a large natural history collection.
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Culture and Society in South Africa of 1870s and 1880s – Views and Consideration of Dr. Emil Holub (Josef Kandert. Prague: Naprstek Museum 1998)
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In 1970, the town of Holice opened a museum dedicated to Emil Holub near the main post office with an associated monument nearby. Since 1999 the
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To the Upper
Zambezi. Some 19th Century Notes of Czech Traveller Emil Holub (eds. Rob S. Burrett and Jaroslav Olša, Jr. Prague: Nová vlna 2020)
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Seven Years in South Africa: Travels, Researches and
Hunting Adventures, Between the Diamond-Fields and the Zambesi (1872–79)
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Gabriele Riz: Leben und Werk des
Afrikaforschers Emil Holub. 1847–1902. Diplomarbeit. Universität Wien, Wien 1985.
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SlavÄ•tĂnskĂ˝, M. (June 1972). "Anniversary of a physician-traveler Emil Holub M.D. (Oct. 7, 1847-Feb. 21, 1902)".
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Kops, J. (November 1975). "From the history of medicine. Conqueror of the black continent (Emil Holub)".
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Dark Deeds. Some
Hunting Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Czech Traveller Emil Holub
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physician, explorer, cartographer, and ethnographer in Africa.
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Holub a MašukulumbovĂ©. Kapitoly o nejvÄ›tšĂm ÄŤeskĂ©m cestovateli
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Za velkĂ˝m dobrodruĹľstvĂm. VypravovánĂ o ÄŤeskĂ©m cestovateli
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on 21 February 1902, from lingering complications of
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813:Emil Holub: Traveller – Ethnographer – Author
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