Relation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque, et les oasis d'Audjelah…
"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.)
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| Author | Pacho, Jean-Raimond, 1794-1829 |
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| Contributor | Agoub, Joseph Élie, 1795-1832 |
| Contributor | La Renaudière, Philippe François de, 1781-1845 |
| Contributor | Letronne, M. (Antoine-Jean), 1787-1848 |
| Contributor | Müller, Frédéric |
| Title | Relation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque, et les oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradèh |
| Original Publication | Paris: Firmin Didot, 1827, pubdate 1828, pubdate 1829. |
| Credits | Galo Flordelis (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France/Gallica) |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | DT: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Africa |
| Subject | Libya -- Description and travel |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 76884 |
| Release Date | Sep 16, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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