Bruneau de Laborie. Du Cameroun au Caire par le désert de Libye

December 24, 2017Sergio Volpi1 min readTravellers & explorers

Bruneau passes from Siwa in 1923 to the end of its long journey that will end in Alexandria, but give very little news about the oasis and its inhabitants.

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Through Lands of the Bible by H.V. Morton (1938)

In the 1930s, H.V. Morton decided to make a Christian pilgrimage from the Euphrates to the Nile, and into Sinai, and to tell the story of the Christian life of the Near East. His account describes the journey from Babylon to…

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Visit of King Fouad to Siwa in 1929 - from: Avec le Roi FOUAD à l'oasis d'Ammon - Evaristo B

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Through Lands of the Bible by H.V. Morton (1938)

Visit of King Fouad to Siwa in 1929 - from: Avec le Roi FOUAD à l'oasis d'Ammon - Evaristo B

Map of Siwa area from: A Journey to Siwa in September and October, 1896, Wilfred Jennings-Bramly; Th