Czech physician, explorer, cartographer and ethnographer (1847-1902)

Emil Holub. Photograph by Müller (?), Prague.

Das Lebensende Dr. Emil Holubs auf grund seiner letzen Briefe / Eduard Wondrák.

Emil Holub's Travels north of the Zambezi, 1885-6 : being a translation into English of part of the second volume of Von der Capstadt ins Land der Maschukulumbe ... Wien, A. Hölder, 1890 / by Christa Johns ; edited and with an introduction and notes by Ladislav Holy.

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Emil Holub's Travels north of the Zambezi, 1885-6 : being a translation into English of part of the second volume of Von der Capstadt ins Land der Maschukulumbe ... Wien, A. Hölder, 1890 / by Christa Johns ; edited and with an introduction and notes by Ladislav Holy.