Svoj o svome – ondašnji karlovački tisak o karlovačkim putnicima-istraživačima Afrike i Južne Amerike druge polovine XIX. i prve polovine XX. stoljeća
ABOUT ONE’S OWN – THE NEWSPAPERS OF KARLOVAC ON THE TRAVELLERS/RESEARCHERS FROM KARLOVAC TO AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH C.

Summary/Abstract: This article examines how local newspapers (Svjetlo, Glasonoša, Sloga, Narodni glas, and Karlovački glasnik) reported on the adventures of travellers/researchers from Karlovac to Africa and South America in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th – Jakov Šašel, Napoleon Lukšić, Janko Mikić and the brothers Mirko and Stevo Seljan. It analyzes the reasons the press of the time published information about these travellers/researchers, the content of the information published, and it looks at the issue of the credibility and use of the press of this period as a source for comparative analysis of facts.

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