Where sea-lanes meet, Cyprus refuses to be reduced to a footnote. An island, contested, and luminous. In Cyprus: historical and descriptive, Franz von Loher marries historical travel writing with a descriptive history narrative, moving from Cyprus from antiquity through later dominations to the author's own nineteenth-century vantage. The result is an island history survey that reads with the immediacy of the road and the ballast of the archive. Clear-eyed and curious, he links geography to power, reading the island's position between Greece and the Levant as a key to its changing fortunes. It is travel literature with a historian's patience and sharp eyes. Loher attends closely to Cyprus ancient history, the traces of Cyprus archaeology and antiquities, and the texture of Cyprus culture and society on an eastern Mediterranean island shaped by seafaring, faith, and commerce. As a specimen of Victorian travel literature and 19th century historiography, it captures how a learned European observer organised evidence, legend, and landscape into coherent history. It also remains a useful scholarly reference book for students of Mediterranean history seeking a period lens on the island's long continuity and contested inheritance. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. For the curious traveller, it offers context for ruins and place-names; for classic-literature collectors, it stands as a thoughtful companion to modern scholarship, inviting comparison and rediscovery.