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Title: THE LURE OF THE HONEY BIRD
THE STORYTELLERS OF ETHIOPIA
By: Elizabeth Laird
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £10.43


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ISBN 10: 0857905813
ISBN 13: 9780857905819
Publisher: BIRLINN GENERAL
Pub. date: 29 July, 2013
Edition: New ed.
Pages: 304
Description: Best-selling, award-winning author Elizabeth Laird has written this stunning memoir describing her travels to the remote regions of Ethiopia.
Synopsis: In 1967, at the age of 23, Elizabeth Laird set off for Addis Ababa to take up her first teaching post. She was introduced to Haile Selassie, made a pilgrimage across the mountains on foot to the ancient city of Lalibela, hitched a ride on an oil tanker across the Danakil Desert, and was arrested for a murder she had not committed. Back in Britain, Laird established herself as a major author of fiction for children and young adults, but she always wanted to return to Ethiopia. Her chance came in the late 1990s, when the British Council in Addis Ababa invited her to collect folk stories from every region of the country. Encountering ex-guerrilla fighters, camel traders, Coptic nuns and tribespeople en route, Laird has written a remarkable account of her journey interwoven with a treasure trove of stories featuring princes and maidens, snakes and lions, zombies and hyena-women.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Birlinn eBooks
Returns: Non-returnable
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