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Luard, Nicholas Gondar
Century 1988 0712619194 / 9780712619196 First UK edition-first printing Hardcover Very good Very good Book
VGC.Century,1988.First UK edition-first printing.Blue hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small nick on the edge of the cover) with Dj(very small tear,a couple of creases and nicks on the edges of the Dj cover),both in VGC.Nice and clean pages with some foxing marks on the outer edges,red mark on the edge of the first blank page of the book,two small nicks and crease on the edges of the pages.The book is in VGC with some foxing marks inside the edges of the Dj cover.628pp.Price un-clipped.First edition.Heavy book. This is another paragraph From Publishers Weekly: This sweeping novel of 19th century Abyssinia takes the reader from the royal palace at Gondar, the ancient capital, to the coastal slave markets and the horrors of the ships that carried human cargo to the New World. In addition, there's a side journey to Scotland and the infamous Highland Clearances when the peasantry were forced off the land to make way for sheep. Rachel, heir to Gondar, is forced to flee her kingdom when an evil priest, Abba Salama, joins forces with the ruler of the neighboring Galla to invade her country. She is aided in her travels by Toomi, child of the ruler of Malinda, another neighboring kingdom, who, with her twin brother Mamkinga, had been stolen by slavers as children. The two girls roam North Africa seeking Mamkinga, pursued by Abba Salama's men. Intertwined with their story is that of Jamie Oran, a young Scotsman orphaned in the Clearances who as a boy was fired with a wild enthusiasm for Africa by Dr. Livingstone's wife. Eventually he joins an expedition seeking the source of the Nile. How these protagonists unite to defeat Abba Salama forms the basis of this colorful epic that depicts many facets of African history. Although he sometimes takes liberties with Abyssinian history, in this first novel British writer Luard provides sex, violence, horror, beauty and love in a well written and very readable mix.
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