23 Ιαν 2025

My “Log”: being an account of a voyage to: Tunis, Malta, Alexandria, Cairo & the Pyramids, Beyrout, Jaffa & Cyprus, by J. B. T., [s.n.], [1903].

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19 Δεκ 2024

An Eastern Chequerboard by Sir Harry Luke, Lovat Dickson Limited Publishers, 1934.

An Eastern Chequerboard by Sir Harry Luke, Lovat Dickson Limited Publishers, 1934.

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21 Νοέ 2024

Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples: A narrative of researches and excavations during ten years’ residence in that island, by General Luis Palma di Cesnola, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1878.

Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples: A narrative of researches and excavations during ten years’ residence in that island, …

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24 Οκτ 2024

Sandys Travels: by George Sandys, Printed for J. Williams Junior at the Crown in Little Britain, 1673.

Sandys Travels: containing an history of the original and present state of the Turkish Empire, their laws, government, policy, military …

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19 Σεπ 2024

Greek Manners and Customs in Cyprus by Magda Ohnefalsch-Richter, translation-introduction - comments and editing by Anna G. Maragou, Cultural Center of Laiki Bank, 1994.

Magda Ohnefalsch-Richter (1873-1922) was a German scholar, writer and archaeologist, particularly known for her contributions to the study of ancient …

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22 Αύγ 2024

The Fringe of the East: a journey through past and present provinces of Turkey, Harry Charles Lukach, Macmillan and CO., 1913.

Sir Harry Charles Luke (born Harry Charles Lukach) a distinguished British diplomat and historian, was born in London in 1884. …

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18 Ιούλ 2024

The Locust War in Cyprus by Samuel Brown

The Locust War in Cyprus by Samuel Brown is a historical report about the fight against locust swarms that destroyed …

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20 Ιούν 2024

Historic Cyprus: A Guide to its Towns and Villages, Monasteries and Castles by Rupert Gunnis

Cyprus, a little world in itself…no wild beasts or reptiles disturb the solitude. The water is sweet and cool, the …

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23 Μάι 2024

The Bridge of Caravans: 626 Miles of Adventure, Cypriote, Turkish, Syrian and Palestinian, by Frances Jenkins Olcott

“Cyprus, the isle of classic beauty and flowers”

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18 Απρ 2024

Discovering Dorothea: The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-Hunter Dorothea Bate, Karolyn Shindler, HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.

Dorothea Minola Alice Bate (1878–1951) was a Welsh palaeontologist and pioneer of archaeozoology. Born at a time when women …

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21 Μάρ 2024

Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa: part the second: Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land, by Edward Daniel Clarke, 1814, Published by D. Huntington.

Edward Daniel Clarke (1769 – 1822) was an English traveller, mineralogist, clergyman and scholar, whose curiosity led him to …

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22 Φεβ 2024

Through Cyprus with the Camera in the Autumn of 1878 by John Thomson. A note on John Thomson by Ialeen Gibson Cowan, 1985, Trigraph Limited.

In the features of this old dame, who earns her living by selling bread in Larnaca, there still linger …

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18 Ιαν 2024

A description of the historic monuments of Cyprus: studies in the archaeology and architecture of the island, with illustrations from measured drawings and photographs, George Jeffery, Zeno Booksellers and Publishers, 1983.

“Nicosia, Famagusta and Kyrenia, which belongs to the Eastern division of the island are still full of the interest which …

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21 Δεκ 2023

Cyprus: From earliest time to the present day, Franz Georg Maier, Elek Books Limited, 1968.

Prima et maxima Orientis Cyprus insula

Franz Georg Maier (1926-2014), a distinguished German archaeologist, left a lasting mark on the …

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16 Νοέ 2023

In the Levant, Charles Dudley Warner, James R. Osgood and Company, 1877.

Charles Dudley Warner (1829 –1900) was a 19th century American novelist and explorer. He was a good friend of Mark …

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19 Οκτ 2023

The Peregrinations of Pamela, H. E. Henderman, Heath Cranton Limited, 1912.

The Peregrinations of Pamela, H. E. Henderman, Heath Cranton Limited, 1912.

The Peregrinations of Pamela is a unique blend …

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21 Σεπ 2023

Studies on the vegetation of Cyprus: based upon researches during the spring and summer 1905, Jens Holmboe, A/S John Griegs Boktykkeri, 1914.

Jens Holmboe (1880-1949) was a Norwegian botanist best known for his research on the vegetation of Cyprus. His dedication to …

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10 Αύγ 2023

Sweet and Bitter Island: a history of the British in Cyprus, Tabitha Morgan, I.B. Tauris, 2010.

“[…]82 years of colonial rule that began when Sir Garnet Wolseley’s troops stepped nervously ashore at Larnaca on a stifling …

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20 Ιούλ 2023

R. Hamilton Lang, Cyprus: its history, its present resources, and future prospects, Macmillan and Co., 1878.

“The island is thought to have received its name “Cyprus” from a shrub extensively found in it, and which is …

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15 Ιούν 2023

Travels in the Island of Cyprus: with contemporary accounts of the sieges of Nicosia and Famagusta / translated from the Italian of Giovanni Mariti by Claude Delaval Cobham, Zeno Booksellers & Publishers, 1971.

Travels in the Island of Cyprus: with contemporary accounts of the sieges of Nicosia and Famagusta / translated from the …

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18 Μάι 2023

Voyages and travels in the Levant in the years 1749, 50, 51, 52: containing observations in natural history, physick, agriculture, and commerce, particularly on the Holy Land, and the natural history of the Scriptures

I went on board a small French vessel, in which I sailed to Cyprus.

Fredrik Hasselquist was a Swedish naturalist …

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20 Απρ 2023

William Lithgow, Travels & Voyages through Europe, Asia, and Africa, nineteen years: Illustrated with notes from later travellers, Leith: printed by William Reid & Co., 1814.

William Lithgow, Travels & Voyages through Europe, Asia, and Africa, nineteen years: Illustrated with notes from later travellers, Leith: printed …

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16 Μάρ 2023

Richard Pococke, A description of the East, and some other countries: observations on Palestine or the Holy Land, Syria, Mesopotamia, Cyprus and Candia, Vol. II. Part I, Printed for the author, by W. Bowyer, 1745.

Richard Pococke, A description of the East, and some other countries: observations on Palestine or the Holy Land, Syria, Mesopotamia, …

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16 Φεβ 2023

Alexander Drummond, Travels through the different Countries of Germany, Italy, Greece, and parts of Asia Minor, as far as the Euphrates, with an Account of what is remarkable in their present State and their Monuments of Antiquity, Printed by W. Strahan f

Alexander Drummond was a Scottish diplomat and travel writer. He was born on 18 January 1698 in Edinburgh Parish, …

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