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Under sail from Tripoli to Derna, 1821–1822

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2015

Dorothy Thorn
Dorothy Thorn*
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West Wickham, Kent, UK
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Abstract

When the Beechey brothers sailed to Tripoli in 1821 in HMS Adventure to begin their survey work along the coast of Libya, a young midshipman, William Robinson, was aboard on his first voyage. He sent home letters describing shipboard life and the Libyan coast as he saw it, reportedly strewn with wrecks, Tripoli and the castle, the ‘Basha’ and Colonel Warrington, Leptis Magna and the ruins which he sketched, Benghazi where the sea had recently eroded the land, leaving Berenice ‘open to view’, Bomba, Derna and the Gulf of Syrtis, the desertification and the wildlife.

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Libyan Studies , Volume 37 , 2006 , pp. 45 - 55
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Copyright © Society for Libyan Studies 2006

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