Libya has not always been the easiest of places for outsiders to visit or travel in. Yet over the four centuries covered in this book (1550-1911), foreign visitors and travellers have included captives and military recruits; resident European consuls; explorers seeking to reveal the mysteries of unknown Africa; archaeologists drawn by the remains of past civilisations; would-be colonisers assessing the agricultural potential of the region; and the leisured tourist of the late nineteenth century seeking the unusual, the quaint and the exotic. The fifty or so excerpts in this anthology bring us a mosaic of impressions of unknown places, handed down to us by the visitors and travellers who experienced them at first hand.
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