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- Title
With brush and camera: Libya today and one hundred years ago.
- Authors
Hare, John
- Abstract
In 1906 Harms Vischer travelled by camel from Tripoli, Libya to Kukawa, Nigeria. His journey was followed almost 100 years later by John Hare, as part of a campaign to raise awareness for the plight of the critically endangered wild Bactrian camel in China and Mongolia. A gifted amateur artist, Vischer illustrated a number of the localities visited during the journey. By coincidence, during his re-creation of the return journey John Hare produced a comparable photographic record. This short note introduces Vischer's watercolours as a source for the comparative assessment of the landscape today mid 100 years ago, and provides a supplement to 'The Vischer family archives', published in Libyan Studies. 34: 175-182.
- Subjects
LIBYA; LIBYA description &; travel; VISCHER, Harms; HARE, John; BACTRIAN camel
- Publication
Libyan Studies, 2005, Vol 36, p117
- ISSN
0263-7189
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0263718900005550