Literary Sardinia maps the literary archive of British and Irish travel in Sardinia from the early seventeenth century to the present day. Apart from professional authors, these travellers include unlucky sailors and obscure rovers, young poets and politicians, entrepreneurs and decorated naval officers, scholars, antiquarians, and archaeologists, engineers, miners, and wild game hunters, artists, journalists, and pioneers of the modern tourist industry. Every location mapped includes an illustrative description from each traveller.  

The goal of the project is to make the extraordinary archive of British and Irish writing on Sardinia accessible to the public, create new travel itineraries, and promote cultural tourism. Once completed, Literary Sardinia will function as a digital tour guide, with various itineraries, literary descriptions of hundreds of attractions across the island, and recommendations for museums, restaurants, experiences, and historical shops.

Literary Sardinia is a work in progress of Dr Thomas Leonard-Roy, Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Sassari.