Travel

An Ethiopian Adventure, very numerous illustrations from photographs (modern photos in colour, those from original 1959 edition in b&w), reproductions of 19th-century lithographs, coloured maps, index, 176 pp, blue boards in d/w, edges or d/w a trifle rubbed, otherwise in very good condition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1998

28.9 x 23.4 cm, 1350g, ISBN 0 29782 369 8

A journey in 1955 to locate and climb the mountain of Wehni, where the Kings of Ethiopia incarcerated their sons until called upon to succeed to the throne.  This book is effectively an enlarged and extra-illustrated edition of the 1959 original, though the text was left exactly as it was.  See the description (below) from the dustwrapper flap.

Now out of print again, and in view of the book’s size and high production standards, very unlikely to be reprinted in these straitened times.