Djerban Shadows

Contenu

Titre

Djerban Shadows

Auteur

Rhodes, Margaret

Date

1929

Dans

Plain talk : it speaks for itself

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.

Sujet

Récits de voyage -- Djerba

Langue

eng

volume

5

numéro

4-5

pages

428-432

Titre abrégé

Plain talk

uri

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