Silphium Press is the more popular imprint of the Society for Libyan Studies’ publications. Books on this list will appeal to a wider audience with a more general interest in Libya and North Africa.
This volume brings the Great Desert Explorers into the limelight, with short, illustrated biographies of around 60 of the most interesting, intrepid and important explorers of the world’s greatest deserts. There is also a brief introduction to each desert region.
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...
Inside the British Administration of Cyrenaica and Libya, 1942-52
by Richard Synge
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 9781900971256
Pub Date: 2015-05-08
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Silphium Press
248 Pages
Operation Idris provides the unofficial story behind the British Administration’s cultivation of Sayyid Mohammed Idris as the figurehead for their project of indirect rule in Cyrenaica. Operation...
This is the second volume in this series, which was launched to great acclaim in 2009. Cyrenaica (known to the Arabs as the Jabal Akhdar, the Green Mountain) has a terrain which resembles that of Greece or western Turkey.
Egypt, Carthage and other African civilisations are well documented but the land and people between them are less well known yet also worthy of consideration.
From Tripoli to the ancient ruins of Leptis Magna, from the slave markets to the farthest reaches of the Sahara: here is a mosaic of unknown places, handed down to us by the foreign visitors and travellers who experienced them first hand over four centuries (1550-1911).
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