Download or read book A Season in Abyssinia written by Paul Strathern and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marseilles, 1891: as Arthur Rimbaud lies dying in hospital, his mind wanders fitfully - taking him back to Commune-era Paris, and the scandalous life he led with Verlaine. But, above all, he is transported to Harar, Abyssinia, where he ventured in 1880 to seek his fortune, having chucking in the disreputable game of writing poetry... Paul Strathern's second novel, published in 1972, won a Somerset Maugham Award both for its superb evocation of the colour, squalor and hurlyburly of Harar and for its inspired 'impersonation' of Rimbaud - restless, ragged self-overcomer, would-be explorer-imperialist, and genius poet repulsed by his past literary life. In a new preface to this edition Strathern discusses the mercurial personality of Rimbaud, his novel's bold shifts between first and third person, and his own travels in East Africa that informed the book.
Download or read book Abyssinia s Samuel Johnson written by Wendy Laura Belcher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers African influences on the Western imagination during the eighteenth century, paying particular attention to the ways Ethiopia inspired and shaped the work of Samuel Johnson.
Download or read book Rimbaud in Abyssinia written by Alain Borer and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's journey to uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of poet Arthur Rimbaud in Africa.
Download or read book Waugh in Abyssinia written by Evelyn Waugh and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scoop, Evelyn Waugh's bestselling comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s is the closest thing foreign correspondents have to a bible -- they swear by it. But few readers are acquainted with Waugh's memoir of his stint as a London Daily Mail correspondent in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) during the Italian invasion in the 1930s. Waugh in Abyssinia is an entertaining account by a cantankerous and unenthusiastic war reporter that "provides a fascinating short history of Mussolini's imperial adventure as well as a wickedly witty preview of the characters and follies that figure into Waugh's famous satire." In the forward, veteran foreign correspondent John Maxwell Hamilton explores in how Waugh ended up in Abyssinia, which real-life events were fictionalized in Scoop, and how this memoir fits into Waugh's overall literary career, which includes the classic Brideshead Revisited. As Hamilton explains, Waugh was the right man (a misfit), in the right place (a largely unknown country that lent itself to farcical imagination), at the right time (when the correspondents themselves were more interesting than the scraps of news they could get.) The result, Waugh in Abyssinia, is a memoir like no other.
Download or read book The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs written by Sir Samuel White Baker and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia written by Henry Blanc and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pass of Lookum; Fort, mission house, and town of Massowah; Grove house, at Monculloh; Village of Dankora, in Atchefur; Church of Kedus Georgis, and village of Nefasa Agau Medur; Village of Kanoa, in Wandigé; View from Wandigé of Lake Tana ...
Download or read book Abyssinian Chronicles written by Moses Isegawa and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every once in a while there emerges a literary voice with the power and urgency to immerse readers deep within a previously "invisible" culture. From a young African writer who has already earned comparisons to Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes this masterful saga of life in 20th-century Uganda. The teller of this panoramic tale is Mugezi, a quick-witted, sharp-eyed man whose life encompasses the traditional and the modern, the peaceful and the insanely violent, the despotic and the democratic. Born in a rural community in the early 1960s, he is raised by his grandfather, a deposed clan chief, and his great-aunt, or "grandmother," after his parents immigrate to the capital city of Kampala. At age nine, he leaves behind his secure life in the village to join his parents and siblings in the city, where he is first exposed to the despotism and hardship that he will contend with in the years to come. The nightmare reign of Idi Amin and its chaotic aftermath are the backdrop to Mugezi's troubled coming-of-age: his constant struggle with his harsh mother and austere father; his years spent as caregiver to his parents' ever-growing brood of children; his sojourn in a horrifically repressive Catholic seminary. He goes to work as a high school teacher, becomes enmeshed in a tragic romance, finds himself drawn into a dubious, potentially dangerous alliance with the military after Amin's fall and witnesses the widespread ravages of the AIDS virus. Finally, sickened by personal loss and national tragedy, he manages to immigrate to Amsterdam. The details of Mugezi's life provide a foundation for Isegawa's brilliant and profoundly illuminating portrait of the contemporary, postcolonial African experience. Filled with extraordinary characters, animated by a wicked sense of humor and guided by an intense yet clear-eyed compassion, Abyssianian Chronicles is our introduction to a superlative new writer.
Download or read book The British Captives in Abyssinia written by Charles Tilstone Beke and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abyssinia written by Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Ethiopia Volume I Routledge Revivals written by E. A. Wallis Budge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the first volume of Sir E. A. Wallis Budge’s The History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, first published in 1928, presents an account of Ethiopian history from the earliest legendary and mythic records up until the death of King Lebna Dengel in 1540. Using a vast range of sources – Greek and Roman reports, Biblical passages, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Ethiopian chronicles – an enthralling narrative history is presented with clarity. This reissue will be of particular interest to students of Ancient Egyptian culture, religion and history.
Download or read book Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia With Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore His Country and People written by Henry Blanc and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science Art and Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of Three Years Residence in Abyssinia written by Samuel Gobat and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travels in Abyssinia and the Galla Country written by Walter Chichele Plowden and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travels in Abyssinia and the Galla Country written by Walter Chicele Plowden and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Ethiopia Nubia Abyssinia written by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seven Years in Southern Abyssinia written by Arnold Wienholt Hodson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
