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100 1 _aPacho, Jean-Raimond,
_d1794-1829
245 1 0 _aRelation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque, et les oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradèh
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-16
508 _aGalo Flordelis (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France/Gallica)
520 _a"Relation d''un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque, et les oasis d''Audjelah…" by J. R. Pacho is an exploratory travel narrative and archaeological-geographical report written in the early 19th century. It documents a scientific journey across Marmarica, Cyrenaica, and the desert oases, combining maps, site drawings, inscriptions, and topographical and botanical observations with comparisons to classical sources. The work centers on field exploration of ruins, landscapes, and tribes, aiming to clarify the antiquity and geography of a little-known region. The opening of the volume presents a royal dedication and a substantial biographical notice recounting the author’s path from aspiring artist to explorer, his Oasis expeditions, the daring traverse from the Egyptian coast into Cyrenaica and back, and the later reception of his work by European learned societies—alongside the melancholy account of his early death. It then shifts to the author’s foreword, outlining motives, prior partial attempts by other travelers, the patrons and consular support that enabled the journey, the intended methods (accurate mapping, drawings, epigraphy), and acknowledgments to scholars who would annotate the findings. Finally, the introduction sketches the region’s physical contrast between desert and the green Djebel Akhdar, the foundation and flowering of Cyrene, political turns under Greek, Ptolemaic, and Roman power, economic staples like silphium, the city’s moral drift (Aristippus’s hedonism), the presence of Jewish communities and early Christianity (including heterodox sects), and the long decline through raids, misrule, and, ultimately, the Islamic conquest. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Firmin Didot, 1827
653 _aLibya -- Description and travel
700 1 _aAgoub, Joseph Élie,
_d1795-1832
700 1 _aLa Renaudière, Philippe François de,
_d1781-1845
700 1 _aLetronne, M.
_q(Antoine-Jean),
_d1787-1848
700 1 _aMüller, Frédéric
856 4 _uhttps://viewer.onb.ac.at/1050A843
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76884
999 _c117609
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