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HERR VON HESSE-WARTEGG spent some months in Tunis last year, and has made a readable book out of his notes. He has also drawn largely on other sources of information, so that those who know little about a country which has been so much before the public recently, will find some useful information in this volume. The author spent a good deal of time about Tunis and its environs, but seems also to have visited several other places in the Regency, including, apparently, Kairwan. He tells us a good deal about the people and their customs, about the government, the Bishas, antiquities, &c. There are several good illustrations, but no map.
Tunis; The Land and the People.
By the Chevalier de Hesse-Wartegg. (London: Chatto and Windus, 1882.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 26, 7 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026007d0
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