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Author: Jean-Christophe Rufin Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393321098 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 436
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A young French doctor braves the wilds of 17th century Abyssinia to cure the country's sick king and gain an ally for Louis XIV. On his success rides a knighthood and the hand of a beautiful woman. Adventure, love and cultural differences by a French doctor who served with Médecins sans Frontières.
Author: Jean-Christophe Rufin Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393321098 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 436
Book Description
A young French doctor braves the wilds of 17th century Abyssinia to cure the country's sick king and gain an ally for Louis XIV. On his success rides a knighthood and the hand of a beautiful woman. Adventure, love and cultural differences by a French doctor who served with Médecins sans Frontières.
Author: J. Anne Helgren Publisher: Barron's Educational Series ISBN: 9780812028645 Category : Abyssinian cat Languages : en Pages : 0
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The most extensive line of basic pet information and training guides on the market, Complete Pet Owner's Manuals are written by experts, and profusely illustrated with full-color photos and instructive, high-quality line art. These books are written in clear, direct language that will appeal to ordinary cat owners, but they also contain information that even experienced breeders and trainers will find enlightening. Each manual has been individually written by an experienced breeder, veterinarian, or qualified expert. Individual titles focus on many of the most popular cat breeds, as well as that favorite, the common house cat.
Author: David Carlin Publisher: Apollo Books ISBN: 9781742586786 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 250
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Sosina Wogayehu learnt to do flips and splits at the age of six, sitting on the floor of her parents' lounge room in Addis Ababa, watching a German variety show on the only television channel in the land. She sold cigarettes on the streets at the age of eight, and played table soccer with her friends who made money from washing cars, barefoot in the dust. She dreamed of being a circus performer. Twenty-five years later, Sosina has conjured herself a new life in a far-off country: Australia. She has rescued one brother and lost another. She has travelled the world as a professional contortionist. She can bounce-juggle eight balls on a block of marble. Sosina is able to juggle worlds and stories, too, and by luck - which is something Sosina is not short of - she has a friend, David Carlin, who is a writer. Following his acclaimed memoir Our Father Who Wasn't There, David brings us his 'not-me' book, travelling to Addis Ababa where he discovers ways of living so different to his own and confronts his Western fantasies and fears. Through Sosina's story he shows us that, with risk and enough momentum, life - whom we befriend, where we end up, how we come to see ourselves - is never predictable.
Author: Francee Greer Williams Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595145388 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 218
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A novel based on the true story of George Polgreen Bridgetower. A master Black Musician who performed for royalty and played with the great Beethoven.
Author: Kurt Jaeger Publisher: tredition ISBN: 3746977134 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 407
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It's 1941 and the last days of the war in Italian-occupied Ethiopia. A small Italian arms convoy is destroyed in an air attack and its sole survivor, Major Umberto Mancino, stumbles across a load of gold bullions hidden in one of the lorries. He seizes this once-in-a-lifetime windfall and hides the fortune in hopes of cashing in, once the war is over. Fates collide, and he gets orders for a covert operation: hiding two beautiful Bugatti automobiles brought to the Horn of Africa on Mussolini's instructions. Not allowed to fall into enemy British hands, the clock is ticking, and absolutely no witnesses to the hideout will be tolerated. The task is achieved with the help of Captain Silvio Falone but ends in bloody horror and the two officers in British prison camps. Some 30 years later, their hidden fortune beckons them back to Ethiopia. The ensuing recovery is daring and full of suspense. New and revised version.
Author: Jenny White Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393072282 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 398
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"An immensely enjoyable read, richly textured and wonderfully atmospheric."—Sarah Graves Constantinople, May 1453. In the dying days of the Byzantine Empire, Isaak Metochites and his family are entrusted with a silver reliquary carved with the figure of a weeping angel and the inscription: Behold the Proof of Chora, Container of the Uncontainable. Four hundred years later, magistrate Kamil Pasha is plagued by thefts of antiquities from mosques and churches and a series of murders in which the bodies bear the same distinctive mark. Sources lead Kamil to a hidden sect descended from Abyssinian slaves living in an abandoned cistern in Istanbul's gritty underworld. The reemergence of the forgotten reliquary sets off a brutal race between those sworn to protect it and those who will stop at nothing to gain its explosive secret.
Author: Jean-Christophe Rufin
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