The deserts of Hesperides : an experience of Libya / Anthony Thwaite.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thwaite, Anthony, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Libya--Description and travel.

Libya.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, [England] : Silphium Books, 1969.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a record of my life in and reactions to Libya during the two periods I have lived there: first as a British army conscript in Tripolitania from June 1950 to July 1951, then as a university teacher in Cyrenaica from September 1965 to July 1967. That there is a connection between the two - that my second stay was the result of my first - quickly becomes apparent. To revisit a Land of Lost Content is supposed to be a mistake, and I dare say it generally is. One thinks of those public school Captains of Games who, on leaving university, tunnel back as quickly as possible into the gold

Contents:

LEPTIS DISCOVERED; EUHESPERIDES, BERENIKE, BENGHAZI; DIFFICULTURE; HESPERIDEAN PLACES; TRIPOLI AND THE WEST; TRIBES AND LOYALTIES; TREASURES IN GRENNA; SYNESIUS OF CYRENE; BLACK MONDAY - BEFORE AND AFTER; AFTERNOTE: END OF A DESERT KINGDOM?; LIST OF PUBLICATIONS; INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-900971-24-0