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Author: Mellina Fanouris
Publisher: Tsehai Publishers
ISBN: 9780974819891
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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In September 1981, a four-seater aircraft mounted into a scorched sky from an African desert track carrying two brothers to freedom. So ended the fifty-five year saga of the Fanouris family in Ethiopia. As Lukas Fanouris looked down and saw patches of gold in the receding landscape, he realized that the Meskel flower was in bloom everywhere. He wept, for the carpet of Meskel around Addis Ababa had been the first sight to meet his father's eyes when he had arrived in 1926 from his Greek island with his wife and infant son to seek his fortune among the descendants of Solomon and Sheba.Manoli Fanouris began his new life by opening a restaurant but soon realized that Ethiopia's hungers did not stem from the stomach but the mind. Soon he began selling newspapers, gradually adding magazines and books and thereby laid the foundations for what was to become one of the largest book and press agency in Ethiopia. Because of Emperor Haile Selasie's efforts to modernize his country and eradicate illiteray, close bonds had developed between the Fanouris enterprise and the Palace. Nevertheless, the rising expectations generated by modernization outstripped the will and power of the Emperor. In 1974 creeping dissension was whipped into military revolution by a hushed famine, deposing the old and frail ruler. While the new dictatorship proclaimed that the Emperor was under house arrest at the Menelik Palace, members of his family and his ministers were thrown into the cells of common criminals. deprived of the bare necessities of life. Sixty princes, ministers and high government officials were executed en masseand flung into an unmarked trench. The wives and mothers of men detained and tortured without charges were imprisoned, others forced to sell what little remained to them to pay for the bullets that had killed their loved ones."Meskel" is the true and poignant saga of a Greek family who lived to witness and record the devastating destruction of a beautiful country which was turned into a living hell by the tyrant, Mengistu Haile Mariam.

Author: Sveinn Benónýsson
Publisher: Invasion of the Ortaks: Book 7 Assassins
ISBN: 9789935948229
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Languages : en
Pages : 200

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In the shelter of darkness, they make their way into the castles to assassinate the royal families.The village of Little Creek is under brutal attack. The Hergian Army by White River attempts to break the siege of their stronghold. The Ortaks Army marches north toward the Vikings to avenge their comrades from Salmon Fjord. Meanwhile, assassins, summoned from the dark corners of the Underworld, attack the royal families of Esthopia. Will the royal families survive these attacks, or will the evil prevail?

Author: Sveinn Benónýsson
Publisher: Sveinn Benonysson
ISBN: 9789935948243
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Can an archer from the village, Little Creek, lead the remains from the royal armies? Invasion of the Ortaks will keep you turning the pages! As the Esthopians fret over the spread of the brutal Ortaks, they also face another, more ghoulish threat: creatures from the Underworld, first encountered by Queen Jofrid's lieutenant and his men. The frightened armies, noblemen, and kings of Eniktronia, Montania, and Serpenia face off against the Ortaks and their king, King Armus in a spectacular battle at Broad Valley. But their lack of experience offsets their heroism, and the Ortaks' strategic attacks lay waste to them. The elves of Alfheim and their aides transport themselves to the land of men to inform them of their new supernatural enemies: bull-riding Demons, ferocious wolflike creatures, and the Necromancers who summon them. A ragtag band of soldiers who escaped death at Broad Valley, led by an archer named Axel, find protection together, while Queen Maria of Montania and her daughters flee to Storm Castle. Meanwhile, Tania, part-elven hero, saves Queen Egny of Otanga. And Sir William at Crown Castle makes a stand against the Ortaks, with his few brave men.

Author: Majka Burhardt
Publisher:
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Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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"What if the very country that claims the Cradle of Humanity is also the next Mecca for adventure: In March of 2007, four women traveled to northern Ethiopia to climb virgin sandstone towers in the Horn of Africa. They explored rock monoliths in a region that is best known for the drought and famine of the 1980s and was the site of one of the bloodiest massacres of the Derg. Vertical Ethiopia is the narrative of their journey. Told through a series of vignettes that reveal what it means to climb, to travel, and to explore, Vertical Ethiopia looks closely at the intersections between adventure and culture, history and opportunity, and sky and sandstone"--Amazon.

Author: Valentina Peveri
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816541159
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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What is a beautiful garden to southern Ethiopian farmers? Anchored in the author’s perceptual approach to the people, plants, land, and food, The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia opens a window into the simple beauty and ecological vitality of an ensete garden. The ensete plant is only one among the many “unloved” crops that are marginalized and pushed close to disappearance by the advance of farming modernization and monocultural thinking. And yet its human companions, caught in a symbiotic and sensuous dialogue with the plant, still relate to each exemplar as having individual appearance, sensibility, charisma, and taste, as an epiphany of beauty and prosperity, and even believe that the plant can feel pain. Here a different story is recounted of these human-plant communities, one of reciprocal love at times practiced in an act of secrecy. The plot unfolds from the subversive and tasteful dimensions of gardening for subsistence and cooking in the garden of ensete through reflections on the cultural and edible dimensions of biodiversity to embrace hunger and beauty as absorbing aesthetic experiences in small-scale agriculture. Through this story, the reader will enter the material and spiritual world of ensete and contemplate it as a modest yet inspiring example of hope in rapidly deteriorating landscapes. Based on prolonged engagement with this “virtuous” plant of southwestern Ethiopia, this book provides a nuanced reading of the ensete ventricosum (avant-)garden and explores how the life in tiny, diverse, and womanly plots offers alternative visions of nature, food policy, and conservation efforts.

Author: Sveinn Benónýsson
Publisher: Sveinn Benonysson
ISBN: 9789935948267
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Languages : en
Pages : 192

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The story continues, as the young queen prepares for war, while the Ortaks show their brutal nature. After crossing Bending Pass with his army, King Anton of Antonia attacks Borg Castle, not knowing his lands are being raided by the Ortaks. General Akhtar, with reinforcements from Orknia, crosses Great River, and attacks Rutan City and Crystal City with his armies. Izzy, a young woman, tries to escape death from a pack of outlaws, while Gils fights the forces of evil on Lake Etu. At the same time, Queen Egny makes her way from Serpenia with her army, into Montania and Eniktronia, after the battle of Crown City. She is to reclaim her throne at Eniktronia Castle. The scattered army of Antonia makes their stand against the Ortaks. While in Alfheim, they face the biggest threat ever to be seen from the Underworld. Tania crosses the River Of Wisdom to meet up with the Barbarians trying to get them involved. This is the fourth book in the series Invasion of the Ortaks!

Author: Sveinn Benónýsson
Publisher: Sveinn Benonysson
ISBN: 9789935948250
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Raised by monks in a mountain monastery where she learned to fight, she finds herself in the world of elves where she joins the Elven Armies. The battle of Broad Valley has been fought and lost, and the brutal Ortaks stand victorious. But though the Esthopian forces were defeated, they are not destroyed. As the Ortaks plunder their lands, the fragments of the defeated armies unite under the leadership of the young commander Axel, forming a rebel force against the invaders. Desperate to aid them, their queen takes on a dangerous journey to cross the Great Mountains to join them in the battle at Crown City. The hero Big John fights his way through Ortaks and outlaws in a seemingly hopeless attempt to save Sir William from certain death. We also learn about the part-elven, Tania, about her journey from childhood to become a captain of the Elven Army and about her time in the monastery in Big Canyon. Meanwhile, as the armies of the Ortaks secure their footholds in Esthopia, the forces from the Underworld grow stronger by the day.

Author: Abraham Verghese
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184001754
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

Author: Sveinn Benónýsson
Publisher: Sveinn Benonysson
ISBN: 9789935948236
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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A great beginning of an epic fantasy sagas that takes place in the world of men and elves. While lodged at an inn for the night, Princess Egny's life is saved in the nick of time, when dark-clad invaders make an attempt on her life. News of the attack reaches the king, who sends Sir Klaus eastward across the outlaw-riddled Bending Pass and into the country of Antonia to learn more about the assassination plot. The novel, filled with well-wrought adventure, hosts a large cast, from the warm Asgrim to the foolhardy Gils, their back stories as attention-grabbing as the main narrative. We learn, for instance, the unsettling history of Christopher, a trader who freed two condemned slaves and joined forces with Klaus against the incoming Ortaks. Esthopians who, faced with the prospect of war with a brutal tribe and betrayal among their ranks, band together, building interest for the series' next instalment.

Author: Sveinn Benónýsson
Publisher: Sveinn Benonysson
ISBN: 9789935948274
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Facing the greatest army ever to be summoned from the Underworld, the Elves make a stand with the Barbarians, side by side, in the battle at East Valley. In the world of men, Queen Egny's army is facing their enemy at Big Berg Castle in Otanga, after the Ortaks' forces crossed Salmon Fjord into Hergia. The Ortaks claim Antonia as their lands, sending troops to the borders of Great Cape, and to White River. Elsewhere, gangs of outlaws are multiplying, making it hard to keep basic law and order in the kingdom, while the royal army is engrossed in warfare.