A Cure for Serpents: An Italian Doctor in North Africa
Product details
| Author: | Alberto Denti Di Pirajno |
| Publisher: | Eland |
| Catalogue number: | 145854 |
| ISBN: | 0907871445 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 14x22cm |
| Number of Pages: | 271 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
£12.99
The Duke of Pirajno arrived in North Africa in 1924. For the next eighteen years his experiences as a doctor in Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somaliland, provided him with opportunities and experiences rarely given to a European.
He brings us stories of noble chieftains and celebrated courtesans, of Berber princes and Tuareg entertainers, of giant elephants, and a lioness who fell in love with the author.
"A Cure for Serpents is the result of this life of overseas service – a delightful account of living and working in Africa as a doctor and colonial administrator....The publishers deserve full credit for this and the other volumes in what is a magical backlist of otherwise out-of-print titles, which contains some of the best travel writing and memoir ever written."
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