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Author Thwaite, Anthony, author.

Title The deserts of Hesperides : an experience of Libya / by Anthony Thwaite
Published London : Silphium Books, an imprint of the Society for Libyan Studies, 2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
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
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
Notes Originally published in 1969
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed June 16, 2015)
Subject HISTORY -- Africa -- North.
Travel
SUBJECT Libya -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89002962
Subject Libya
Form Electronic book
Author Society for Libyan Studies (London, England)
ISBN 9781900971249
1900971240