The Island of Sardinia: Including Pictures of the Manners and Customs of the Sardinians and Notes on the Antiquities and Modern Objects of the Interest in Island

The Island Of Sardinia: Including Pictures Of The Manners And Customs Of The Sardinians And Notes On The AntiquITIES AND Modern Objects Of Interest IN Island by John Warre Tyndale offers a 19th-century travelogue and sociocultural survey of Sardinia. Drawing on contemporary sources and field observations, Tyndale charts the island's geography from Alghero to Sassari, Tempio, and La Madalena, and surveys its ancient sites—the Nuraghe (Noraghe) and Sepolture de is Gigantes—alongside its modern institutions, economy, and daily life. The work blends history, archaeology, ethnography, and topography to illuminate Sardinian history—from Phoenician and Carthaginian settlements through Roman rule, the Giudicati, and Savoy rule—and to examine climate, health (intemperie), forests, coral fishery, tolls, education, and the priesthood. Rich in anecdotes, it recounts Napoleonic wars, Nelson’s and Buonaparte’s activities around Sardinia, maritime vantage points in ports such as Alghero, Porto Torres, and Longone, and portraits of Sardinian society, customs, and landscapes. The book aims to render a accessible, landscape-scale portrait of a little-known Mediterranean culture, its past and present, and its relationship to the House of Savoy.