For a look at the man behind Libya's muscle, Escape to Hell and Other Stories by Mu'ammar Gaddafi is the leader's most recent contribution to the annals of literary history. For a better understanding of his political agenda, peek into the three-part Green Book.For connoisseurs of all things political, Qaddafi and the Libyan Revolution by David Blundy and Andrew Lycett will make for riveting reading. And if you're still going strong after that, Mansour O El-Kikhia's interest and scholarship cut through the rumour and news rhetoric in Libya's Qaddafi: The Politics of Contradiction.Still hungry? Islam and the Third Universal Theory: The Religious Thought of Mu'Ammar Al-Qadhdhafi by Mahmoud Ayoub is hard to get your hands on, but worth it.If you're hankering for something a little less 'now,' Piracy and Diplomacy in Seventeenth-Century North Africa: The Journal of Thomas Baker, English Consul in Tripoli, 1677-1685 should fit the bill.One of the best books on Libyan travel is Knud Holmboe's 1931 classic, Desert Encounter, which details the author's adventures in Italian Libya.Author Phillip Ward has produced several books for visitors to Libya. Among them are Tripoli: Portrait of A City, Touring Libya; the Southern Provinces and Touring Libya; the Eastern Provinces.Libyan-born and American-raised, Khaled Mattawa writes poetry that speaks across borders, both cultural and political. His work is collected in Ismailia Eclipse.Biologists and binocular-toters will want to dig up a copy of Libyan Mammals by Ernst Hufnagi.