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Golden Legends: Images of Abyssinia, Samuel Johnson to Bob Marley

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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 ...

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Golden Legends: Images of Abyssinia, Samuel Johnson to Bob Marley 2008, Stanford General Books, Stanford, CA

ISBN-13: 9780804760980

Hardcover