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A Cure for Serpents

A Cure for Serpents

by Alberto di Pirajno

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES

An eye-witness account of the people, cultures and life in North Africa in the 1920s and 1930s by The Duke of Pirajno, who served as Italian ambassador in Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somaliland. He writes with candor and grace of everyday life and culture of the region, along with the chieftains and courtesans Berber princes and Tuareg entertainers.  (NAF49, $33.95)


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