Text cz., summary engl. - " At the end of 1898 Bedrich Machulka (1875-1954), along with his friend Richard Štorch (1877-1922), travelled to North Africa, where, in Libya, started his career as a traveller, organiser of safari hunting expeditions, dealer in natural products and expert on African wild life. Apart from collecting natural products, both companions also devoted themselves to photography, an activity they never, for the duration of their African stay, desisted from. The collection comprises 3163 negatives. Geographically, the negatives come from the areas where Machulka stayed, that is from Libya, Madagascar, Sudan, Egypt, Oganda, Belgian Congo, Tangayica (today´s Tanzania) and Kenia. They cover the period between 1888 and 1935, the year when Machulka brought his pursuits on the African continent to an end. The publication summarizes the principal data of Bedrich Machulka´s life, deals with his sojourn in different parts of Africa and offers assessment of his photographic work."(Asia Photobooks Peter van der Kamp, 12.2014).