Author: Wendy Laura Belcher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019979331X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
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.
Abyssinia's Samuel Johnson
Author: Wendy Laura Belcher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019979331X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019979331X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
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.
Into Abyssinia
Author: Carl E. Hansen
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1664290699
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In this autobiographical book, the author gives an informative and lively account of the first eight years of his and his family's living and serving in pre-revolutionary feudal Ethiopia. It is a story of adventure as a novice missionary couple learns and adapts to a vastly different culture while raising a family in the less developed hinterlands. The events take place from 1967 to 1975, a pivotal time in Ethiopia’s history; a time marked by growing discontent with feudalism and the ancient imperial regime that supported it. It was a time of growing turmoil that, in the midst of drought and famine, spilled over into an armed revolution; a time when ignorant men with guns over-powered the best minds and forced a tradition-bound society to join in a bloody experiment with radical socialism. It was a time when the slow and difficult years of missionary effort in planting the seeds of the Christian gospel began to sprout and take root and grow into what would become a mighty movement of transformation in that society.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1664290699
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In this autobiographical book, the author gives an informative and lively account of the first eight years of his and his family's living and serving in pre-revolutionary feudal Ethiopia. It is a story of adventure as a novice missionary couple learns and adapts to a vastly different culture while raising a family in the less developed hinterlands. The events take place from 1967 to 1975, a pivotal time in Ethiopia’s history; a time marked by growing discontent with feudalism and the ancient imperial regime that supported it. It was a time of growing turmoil that, in the midst of drought and famine, spilled over into an armed revolution; a time when ignorant men with guns over-powered the best minds and forced a tradition-bound society to join in a bloody experiment with radical socialism. It was a time when the slow and difficult years of missionary effort in planting the seeds of the Christian gospel began to sprout and take root and grow into what would become a mighty movement of transformation in that society.
Waugh in Abyssinia
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807132519
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
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.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807132519
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
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.
Rimbaud in Abyssinia
Author: Alain Borer
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The author's journey to uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of poet Arthur Rimbaud in Africa.
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The author's journey to uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of poet Arthur Rimbaud in Africa.
Life in Abyssinia
Author: Mansfield Parkyns
Publisher:
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Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Journal of a Three Years' Residence in Abyssinia
Author: Samuel Gobat
Publisher:
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Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Routes in Abyssinia
Author: Anthony Charles Cooke
Publisher:
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Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile
Author: James Bruce
Publisher:
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Category : Blue Nile River (Ethiopia and Sudan)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Blue Nile River (Ethiopia and Sudan)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. into Abyssinia, to discover the source of the Nile. Abridged ... by Samuel Shaw
Author: James BRUCE (the Traveller.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq., Into Abyssinia
Author: James Bruce
Publisher:
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Category : Blue Nile River (Ethiopia and Sudan)
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blue Nile River (Ethiopia and Sudan)
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description