21 Sep 2023
Jens Holmboe (1880-1949) was a Norwegian botanist best known for his research on the vegetation of Cyprus. His dedication to …
10 Aug 2023
“[…]82 years of colonial rule that began when Sir Garnet Wolseley’s troops stepped nervously ashore at Larnaca on a stifling …
20 Jul 2023
“The island is thought to have received its name “Cyprus” from a shrub extensively found in it, and which is …
15 Jun 2023
Travels in the Island of Cyprus: with contemporary accounts of the sieges of Nicosia and Famagusta / translated from the …
18 May 2023
I went on board a small French vessel, in which I sailed to Cyprus.
Fredrik Hasselquist was a Swedish naturalist …
20 Apr 2023
William Lithgow, Travels & Voyages through Europe, Asia, and Africa, nineteen years: Illustrated with notes from later travellers, Leith: printed …
16 Mar 2023
Richard Pococke, A description of the East, and some other countries: observations on Palestine or the Holy Land, Syria, Mesopotamia, …
16 Feb 2023
Alexander Drummond was a Scottish diplomat and travel writer. He was born on 18 January 1698 in Edinburgh Parish, …
12 Jan 2023
William Turner, Journal of a Tour in the Levant, John Murray, in 3 volumes, 1820.
"But come, now, tell …
15 Dec 2022
“What is Cyprus?
An island lying in the north-east corner of the Levant; the key of Egypt, Syria, and Asia …
10 Nov 2022
Fyler, Arthur Evelyn, 1833, The development of Cyprus, and rambles in the island, With colourded Illustrations, Maps and Plan, London, …
07 Oct 2022
Seamus MacHugh was born in Ireland and attended university both there and Italy. While in Tanzania, East Africa, where he …
05 Aug 2022
Samuel White Baker was an English explorer who helped to locate the sources of the River Nile. He was born …
05 Jul 2022
Gordon Home was born in London, 25 July 1878. He was an English artist, author and illustrator. He served in …
20 Jun 2022
Anna ‘Annie’ Brassey Allnutt, daughter of Elizabeth (Burnett) and John Allnut was born in London, on 8 of October 1839.
28 Apr 2022
Edward Vizetelly (1847-1903) came from a long line of printers, engravers and publishers. The family originated from Italy until their …
15 Mar 2022
British Engineer, Basil Stewart first visited Cyprus in 1904 to assume the duties of a topographical engineer for the construction …
19 Feb 2022
Marian Ruth Engel was a Canadian novelist, short-story and children's fiction writer and a passionate activist for the national and …
18 Jan 2022
Olive Murray Chapman, Across Cyprus, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1945
16 Dec 2021
“Once upon a time, there was a village. We lived there not long ago. How can I conjure up that …
22 Nov 2021
18 Oct 2021
William Hurrell Mallock (1849 –1923) was an English novelist and economics writer.
He was educated privately and then at Balliol …
16 Sep 2021
John Knittel, Cyprus wine from my cellar, J. Long Ltd, 1933.
“With our feet we stand on the ground, with …
15 Jul 2021