“Good morning Dr. Holub, are you going to Africa again this year?” “He’ll be home, he’s had enough!” This famous phrase from Ladislav Smoljak and Zdeněk Svěrák‘s film Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping is known to every true traveller. Emil Holub is undoubtedly one of the travel legends and one of the most famous Czech travellers of the second half of the 19th century. I visited his exhibition at the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures and was absolutely fascinated by it. I discovered that I had always rather perceived him as a film character from the film in …