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By Elizabeth Laird

ISBN-10: 1846972469

ISBN-13: 9781846972461

In 1967, on the age of 23, Elizabeth Laird trigger for Addis Ababa to soak up her first educating publish. She was once brought to Haile Selassie, made a pilgrimage around the mountains taking walks to the traditional urban of Lalibela, hitched a trip on an oil tanker around the Danakil barren region, and was once arrested for a homicide she had now not dedicated. again in Britain, Laird proven herself as a huge writer of fiction for kids and teenagers, yet she continually desired to go back to Ethiopia. Her likelihood got here within the past due Nineteen Nineties, whilst the British Council in Addis Ababa invited her to assemble folks tales from each quarter of the rustic. Encountering ex-guerrilla warring parties, camel investors, Coptic nuns and tribespeople en course, Laird has written a amazing account of her trip interwoven with a treasure trove of reports that includes princes and maidens, snakes and lions, zombies and hyena-women.

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