The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (eBook, PDF) - de Rougemont, Louis
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Louis De Rougemont (12 November 1847 – 9 June 1921) was a Swiss explorer who claimed to have had adventures in Australasia. He was born in Switzerland. He held many jobs including servant, footman and butler. He tried working as a doctor, a 'spirit photographer' and an inventor with little success. In 1898 he began writing about his adventures in The Wide World Magazine. He claimed to have searched for treasures in New Guinea. He also said that he had spent 30 years living with the Indigenous Australians in the outback. This tribe was said to have worshipped his as a god. From the beginning…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Louis De Rougemont (12 November 1847 – 9 June 1921) was a Swiss explorer who claimed to have had adventures in Australasia. He was born in Switzerland. He held many jobs including servant, footman and butler. He tried working as a doctor, a 'spirit photographer' and an inventor with little success. In 1898 he began writing about his adventures in The Wide World Magazine. He claimed to have searched for treasures in New Guinea. He also said that he had spent 30 years living with the Indigenous Australians in the outback. This tribe was said to have worshipped his as a god. From the beginning there were many skeptics about his claims. When tested Rougemont could not find the areas he had visited on a map and would not speak the language he claimed to have known. The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont may be nothing but invention, but this does not detract from the fact that it is a fun book to read.
Autorenporträt
Louis de Rougemont, born Henri Louis Grin in 1847, was a Swiss explorer and author, known for his colorful and controversial account of adventure in the book 'The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont' (1899). He crafted a web of lies and exotic tales about his travels in Australia that captured the imagination of the Victorian public. In this narrative, Rougemont sensationalized his experiences with indigenous people and the Australian wilderness, claiming to have lived among the Aborigines and encountered fantastic creatures. Despite the initial acclaim, his work was eventually debunked as a fabrication, leading to his reputation as one of the greatest impostors of his time. Rougemont's literary style combined outlandish adventure with a supposed ethnographic authority, characteristic of late 19th-century travel literature. His book, while now recognized as fiction, offers insight into the era's cultural appetites for the exotic and the boundaries between truth and entertainment in travel narratives. The 'adventures' provided an escape and fed the era's hunger for the thrill of discovery, despite the ensuing scandal when Rougemont's fabrications were exposed.