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The Prince and the Plunder - How Britain took one small boy and hundreds of treasures from Ethiopia (Hardcover)
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The Prince and the Plunder - How Britain took one small boy and hundreds of treasures from Ethiopia (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R592
Discovery Miles 5 920
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'Extraordinary and thrilling ... This story should be known to
every man, woman and child' - Lemn Sissay In 1868, British troops
charged into the mountain empire of Ethiopia, stormed the citadel
of its monarch Tewodros II and grabbed piles of his treasures and
sacred manuscripts. They also took his son - six-year-old Prince
Alamayu - and brought the boy back with them to the cold shores of
England. For the first time, Andrew Heavens tells the whole story
of Alamayu, from his early days in his father's fortress on the
roof of Africa to his new home across the seas, where he charmed
Queen Victoria, chatted with Lord Tennyson and travelled with his
towering red-headed guardian Captain Speedy. The orphan prince was
celebrated but stereotyped and never allowed to go home. The book
also follows the loot - Ethiopia's 'Elgin Marbles' - and tracks it
down to its current hiding places in bank vaults, museum store
cupboards and a boarded-up cavity in Westminster Abbey. A story of
adventure, trauma and tragedy, The Prince and the Plunder is also a
tale for our times, as we re-examine Britain's past, pull down
statues of imperial grandees and look for other figures to
commemorate and celebrate in their place.
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