A History of Modern Libya
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780521850483
Subjects: African history: from c 1900 -; 20th century; History: World; History; History - General History; Libya; Africa - North; History / Middle East; Middle East - General; 1969-; Foreign relations; Politics and government
First sentence: More than two millennia after Herodotus described the empty vastness of the Libyan desert, the German explorer Gustav Nachtigal set out in February 1869 from Tripoli toward Fazzan, and beyond, on a trip to the ruler of Bornu.