Expeditionen in die Wüste - Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
- Episode aired Feb 12, 2012
Penniless, German-law-trained Swiss adventurer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt convinced the British Royal Navy's cover African Association to engage him as undercover spy to reattempt the search f... Read allPenniless, German-law-trained Swiss adventurer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt convinced the British Royal Navy's cover African Association to engage him as undercover spy to reattempt the search for the Niger, which killed officer Mungo Park three years earlier. He started his ultimate... Read allPenniless, German-law-trained Swiss adventurer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt convinced the British Royal Navy's cover African Association to engage him as undercover spy to reattempt the search for the Niger, which killed officer Mungo Park three years earlier. He started his ultimate voyage in 1816 in Cairo as Indian Muslin trader sheik Ibrahim Ibn-Abdullah, after ample t... Read all