The Chains of Heaven: A Walk in the Ethiopian Highlands
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Philip Marsden returns to the remote, fiercely beautiful landscape that has exercised a powerful mythic appeal over him since his first encounter with it over twenty years ago. 'Ethiopia bred in me... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0007173482
Release Date:August 2006
Publisher:Harper Perennial, London
Length:310 Pages
Weight:0.44 lbs.
Dimensions:7.8" x 0.8" x 5.1"
Customer Reviews
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Mr. Marsden's Unfinished Business.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Finally Mr. Marsden returns to Ethiopia and gets to travel to the places denied him on his first visit 20 years ago in his first memoir "A FAR COUNTRY: TRAVELS IN ETHIOPIA (CENTURY TRAVELLERS)". He journeys from Lalibela all the way up to Axum stopping at at a multitude of villages and churches along the way. In typical Marsden fashion, what makes the book a gem is the historical information about the country the he mixes into his memoir; as well as the popular myths and legends surrounding the locations. I'd also highly recommend Marsden's historical biography of Emperor Tewodros, "The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy".
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