Djerban Shadows

Contenu

Rhodes, Margaret. 1928. « Djerban Shadows ». Plain Talk : It Speaks for Itself 5 (4-5): 428-32, bibliographie, consulté le 3 avril 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/52296

Titre

Djerban Shadows

Créateur

Rhodes, Margaret Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Sujet

Récits de voyage -- Djerba Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

The island of Djerba lies off the east coast of Tunisia within sight of the deserts of Africa. Here Ulysses once drew up his battered vessels. The Arab early pressed himself upon the indigenous Berber and was never quite driven out. Dido's fleet rested here on its way to Carthage and established great caravansaries. The Roman and the Turk had their way with the island, and in the middle ages the Spanish conquered it and built a magnificent fort on the shore. They in turn fell before the onslaught of combined Arab and Turk, who built a mound of skulls, 18,000 of them cemented into a tower to commemorate the victory. Djerba fell at last into poverty and was left a stranger both to cupidity and to progress. Old customs hold. The native still feasts upon dog and conceals his women.

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volume

5

numéro

4-5

pages

428-432

Date

1929

Langue

eng

Titre abrégé

Plain talk

uri

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uga1.32108057071261?urlappend=%3Bseq=1

Rhodes, Margaret. 1928. « Djerban Shadows ». Plain Talk : It Speaks for Itself 5 (4-5): 428-32, bibliographie, consulté le 3 avril 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/52296