{"id":31194,"date":"2016-09-20T09:01:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T08:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=31194"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:39:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:39:51","slug":"golbery-sylvain-meinrad-xavier-de-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/golbery-sylvain-meinrad-xavier-de-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Golb\u00e9ry, Sylvain Meinrad Xavier de"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sylvain Meinrad Xavier de<\/strong><strong> G<\/strong><strong>olb\u00e9ry <\/strong><strong>(1742-1822) <\/strong>was a French geographer and military engineer. He is best known for his account of his travels in western Africa in, <em>Fragmens d&#8217;un voyage en Afrique <\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/g\/\">1297<\/a>]<\/sup> . His book was translated into English by W. Mudford, with a new title of, <em>Travels in Africa<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/g\/\">1298<\/a>]<\/sup><em>.<\/em> He refers to Atlantis in the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantic-ocean\/\">Atlantic<\/a>, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/azores\/\">Azores<\/a> and <a href=\"#CanaryIslands\">Canaries<\/a> as &#8216;its shattered remains&#8217;<sup>[p.207]<\/sup>\u00a0with a possible connection with the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantes\/\">Atlantes<\/a> of northwest Africa. <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/franke-thorwald-c\/\">Thorwald C. Franke<\/a> notes, &#8221;\u00a0<em>he put forward the thesis that the Canary Islands were once connected to the Atlas Mountains and were separated from them in a catastrophe.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sylvain Meinrad Xavier de Golb\u00e9ry (1742-1822) was a French geographer and military engineer. He is best known for his account of his travels in western Africa in, Fragmens d&#8217;un voyage en Afrique [1297] . His book was translated into English by W. Mudford, with a new title of, Travels in Africa[1298]. He refers to Atlantis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,534,40,29,28,4871,692,4872],"class_list":["post-31194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-africa","tag-atlantes","tag-atlantic","tag-azores","tag-canaries","tag-s-m-x-de-golbery","tag-thorwald-c-franke","tag-w-mumford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66540,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31194\/revisions\/66540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}