The Old Station Pottery & Bookshop
 Thesiger. Wilfred.: The Danakil Diary. Journeys through Abyssinia, 1930-34. , London. Harper Collins. 1996.1st edn. Hardback in d/w. 214pp. 45 b/w photos + 2 coloured maps + b/w drawings and maps within text. Plum cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Gift inscr to front free endpaper, otherwise near FINE. In near FINE unclipped d/w. A very presentable copy. Aged only 23, Thesiger became the first European to travel through the fabled Sultanate of Aussa, a forbidding land where two Italian expeditions and an Egyptian army had previously been wiped out by Danakil tribesmen. Thesiger's remarkable journey solved one of Africa's last remaining geographical mysteries, and established the reputation of a man now considered by many to be the century's greatest living explorer. (Book ref. 3866) £20.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, The Old Station Pottery & Bookshop , are shown in the right-hand column. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
