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The Chains of Heaven - An Ethiopian Romance (Paperback)
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The Chains of Heaven - An Ethiopian Romance (Paperback)
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List price R399
Loot Price R252
Discovery Miles 2 520
You Save R147 (37%)
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Philip Marsden returns to the remote, fiercely beautiful landscape
that has exercised a powerful mythic appeal over him since his
first encounter with it over twenty years ago. 'Ethiopia bred in me
the conviction that if there is a wider purpose to our life, it is
to understand the world, to seek out its diversity, to celebrate
its heroes and its wonders - in short, to witness it.' When Philip
Marsden first went to Ethiopia in 1982, it changed the direction of
his life. What he saw of its stunning antiquity, its raw
Christianity, its extremes of brutality and grace prompted his
curiosity, and made him a writer. But Ethiopia at that time was
torn apart by civil war. The north, the ancient heartland of the
country, was closed off. Twenty years later, Marsden returned. The
result is this book - the account of a journey deferred. Walking
hundreds of miles through a landscape of cavernous gorges, tabletop
mountains and semi-desert, Marsden encounters monks and hermits,
rebels and farmers. And he creates an unforgettable picture of one
of the most remote regions left on earth. As in his award-winning
book 'The Spirit-Wrestlers', Marsden reminds us of the brilliant
heights that travel writing can attain, whilst celebrating the
ageless rewards of the open road and the people for whom the mythic
and the everyday are inextricably joined.
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