From Tripoli to Gadames was published in English in 1930 by the Libyan Tourist Office. It depicts the stages of a journey among the dunes and the oases of an Italian colony that was largely unknown. The illustration of the text was offered to Dudovich, who in all likelihood went on this journey in order to have a unique personal experience. The resulting 16 colour plates are a remarkable evidence of the work Dudovich devoted to his Libyan tour. The publication is supplemented by a military map detailing the stages of this journey among sun-drenched oases, palm trees, and veiled Berber women, in a lunar landscape that was all still to be explored. Mysticism and orientalism are contrasted with the modernity of travellers, portrayed in 20th-century clothes in roaring Fiats or Alfa Romeos – new steeds in which one could fly over burning sand tracks.
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أخبار - كتب جديدة - عروض
