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Alexandrine Tinné

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Alternate Names:

Alexine Tinné
Alexina Tinné
Alexandrine Petronella Francina Tinné
Alexandrine Pieternella Françoise Tinné

Gender: Female

Life Dates: 17 October 1835 - 1 August 1869

Types:

Adventure, physical feat or survival
Adventuress, self-promoting entrepreneur
Dutch
Heiress
Society or High Rank
Traveler, travel writer

Note: She was the first woman to try to cross the Saraha Desert, and she was murdered in the attempt; ethnographic collection at the Liverpool World Museum; papers at the National Archive in The Hague; photographs at the National Archive and the Haags Gemeentearchief

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Biographies (4 Total)

Africa: No Place for a Lady? Author: Barbara Hodgson . Collection Title: No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers. 2002
Alexandrine Tinné (African Explorer) Author: Matilda Betham-Edwards . Collection Title: Six Life Studies of Famous Women: With Six Portraits Engraved on Steel. 1880
Mademoiselle Alexina Tinné Author: William Henry Davenport Adams . Collection Title: Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century. 1883
The Middle East: Desert Queens Author: Barbara Hodgson . Collection Title: No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers. 2002