As consul-general at Algiers, Playfair held the post James Bruce had held a century before, and he set out to follow Bruce’s little-known travels through the Barbary states. Using Bruce’s own drawings and journals, he visits the Roman ruins of Algeria and Tunisia and describes the towns, tribes and antiquities he finds on the way.
Of interest to readers of Roman North Africa and of the explorer who later went in search of the Nile. Download the free EPUB.