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

By:

Thwaite, Anthony [author.]

Contributor(s):

Society for Libyan Studies (London, England)

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Silphium Books, an imprint of the Society for Libyan Studies, 2015Description: 1 online resource : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781900971249
1900971240

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Deserts of Hesperides : An Experience of Libya.DDC classification:

961.2/044 23

LOC classification:

DT220.2

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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.

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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed June 16, 2015).

Originally published in 1969.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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