Edward Nicholls (bap. 1583?, d. 1622?), sailor, account from John Taylor (1578–1653), A Fight at Sea, Famously fought by the Dolphin of London against five of the Turkes Men of Warre, and a Satty the 12. Of January last 1616 (1617)

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Horatio Nelson (1758–1805), English naval commander

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John Cam Hobhouse (1786–1869), English politician, writer, and friend of the poet Lord Byron

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William Henry Smyth (1788–1865), English naval officer, astronomer, and author, known as ‘Mediterranean Smyth’. Author of Sketch of the Present State of the Island of Sardinia (1828)

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​John Warre Tyndale (1811–97), English barrister, author of 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 the Island (1849)

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James Henry Bennet (1816–91), English doctor and Doctor of Medicine at the Sorbonne. Author of Winter and Spring on the Shores of the Mediterranean (1870, expanded 1875)

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Robert Tennant (b. 1828), author of Sardinia and its Resources (1885)

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Thomas Forester (dates unknown), travel writer. Author of Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia (1858, 2nd edn 1861)

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Mary Davey (dates unknown), author of Icnusa; or, Pleasant Reminiscences of a two Years’ Residence in the Island of Sardinia (1860) and Sardinia (1874)

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Charles Edwardes (dates unknown), travel writer. Author of Sardinia and the Sardes (1889)

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Thomas Ashby (1874–1941), English archaeologist

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J. E. Crawford Flitch (dates unknown), travel writer and translator. Author of Mediterranean Moods, Footnotes of Travel In the Islands of Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, and Sardinia (London, 1911)

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D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), English novelist. Author of Sea and Sardinia (1921)

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Douglas Goldring (1887–1960), English writer and journalist. Author of Sardinia: The Island of the Nuraghi (1930)

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Harold Webber Freeman (1899–1994), English novelist. Author of Round the Island: Sardinia Re-Explored (1956)

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Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish playwright and novelist

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Alan Ross (1922–2001), India-born British writer, poet, and editor. Author of The Bandit on the Billiard Table: A Journey Through Sardinia (1954)

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Mary Delane (dates unknown), author of Sardinia: The Undefeated Island (1968)

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Russell King (1945–), English geographer. Author of Sardinia (1975)

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