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"Ludwig Kurtze introduces himself: a Baron Münchhausen, pardon, a baron Veltheim of the early days of globalization. A James Bond guy with Hans-Albers charm... Who was already on the way between 1872 and 1908 on tea clippers, banana steamers and luxury liners between Rangoon and Cape Town, Colo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baron Veltheim, 1860?-1930 (Author)
Other Authors: Wiegler, Paul, 1878-1949 (Editor), Kiaulehn, Walther, 1900-1968 (writer of afterword.)
Format: Book
Language:German
Published: Berlin : Rowohlt, 1934.
Subjects:
Kurtze, Ludwig, > 1860?-1930 > Travel > South Africa > Transvaal.
Transvaal (South Africa) > Description and travel.
Transvaal (South Africa) > History > 1880-1910.
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Summary:"Ludwig Kurtze introduces himself: a Baron Münchhausen, pardon, a baron Veltheim of the early days of globalization. A James Bond guy with Hans-Albers charm... Who was already on the way between 1872 and 1908 on tea clippers, banana steamers and luxury liners between Rangoon and Cape Town, Colon and St. Louis, Celebes, Cartagena and Adelaide? No other than Baron Ludwig von Veltheim, with the bourgeois name Ludwig Kurtze from Lower Saxony"--bol.com (Fahrten und Frauen, 2014; non-fiction reviews)
Physical Description:315 pages ; 21 cm