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20%OFFW. B. Carnochan - Golden Legends: Images of Abyssinia, Samuel Johnson to Bob Marley - 9780804760980 - V9780804760980
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Golden Legends: Images of Abyssinia, Samuel Johnson to Bob Marley

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Description for Golden Legends: Images of Abyssinia, Samuel Johnson to Bob Marley Hardback. From the eighteenth century onwards, travelers, explorers, journalists, imaginative writers like Samuel Johnson, and legendary reggae musician Bob Marley have shared a fascination with the Abyssinia. This book considers the allure of the exotic, as represented by Abyssinia, to the British imagination. Num Pages: 184 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGA; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 354.

From the eighteenth century to the present, travellers, explorers, journalists, imaginative writers like Samuel Johnson, and legendary reggae musician Bob Marley have shared a fascination with Abyssinia. So did even earlier writers and mapmakers, who thought Abyssinia was the land of the mythical (and fabulously rich) Christian ruler, Prester John.

The principal subject of this book is the allure of the exotic, as represented by Abyssinia, to the British imagination. In addition to Johnson and Marley, some others included are the eighteenth-century Scot James Bruce, nineteenth-century explorer Richard Burton, author Evelyn Waugh, Wilfred Thesiger (best known of twentieth-century British ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804760980
SKU
V9780804760980
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Ref
99-15

About W. B. Carnochan
W. B. Carnochan is the Richard W. Lyman Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at Stanford University and former Director of the Stanford Humanities Center.

Reviews for Golden Legends: Images of Abyssinia, Samuel Johnson to Bob Marley
"I can think of no other book on Abyssinia quite like this one. . . . As usual, the scholarship is excellent
unobtrusive, thorough, wide-ranging, with often exciting juxtapositions and connections. . . . Of vitally absorbing interest.—Alexander Maitland, author of Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer

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