Query: Books about South Korea or Ethiopia
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile
Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
Cutting for Stone
Oromay
Late Victorian Holocausts
Cry Wolf (novel)
The Shadow King (novel)
Life on the Ground Floor
Gennet Lives in Ethiopia
The Dwarf (Cho novel)
Beneath the Lion's Gaze
Our Twisted Hero
The Red Queen (Drabble novel)
The Garbage King
Journals of Isenberg and Krapf
Evidence from documents: Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile: '''''Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773''''' is a multi-volume account by the Scottish traveller James Bruce (1730–94) of his journeys in the Horn of Africa, which includes an eye-witness account of Ethiopian history and culture, as well as a description of that country and the neighboring kingdom of Sennar and the Ottoman province of Habesh.
Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles: He recounts his experience walking across South Korea, from Jeju in the south to the DMZ in the north, roughly following a route originally taken by a group of Dutch sailors, reportedly the first Europeans to visit Korea.
Cutting for Stone: '''''Cutting for Stone''''' (2009) is a novel written by Ethiopian-born Indian-American medical doctor and author Abraham Verghese. It is a saga of twin brothers, orphaned by their mother's death at their births and forsaken by their father. The book includes both a deep description of medical procedures and an exploration of the human side of medical practices.
Oromay: The Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia was assigned the task of leading the campaign.
Late Victorian Holocausts: This book explores the impact of colonialism and the introduction of capitalism during the El Niño-Southern Oscillation related famines of 1876–1878, 1896–1897, and 1899–1902, in India, China, Brazil, Ethiopia, Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines and New Caledonia.
Cry Wolf (novel): '''''Cry Wolf''''' is a novel by Wilbur Smith set during the 1935 Italian invasion of Ethiopia.
The plot is set minorly in Dar-es-Salaam and majorly in the Ethiopian desert-lands sometime in the 1930s, just as the Axis powers were starting to pursue their colonial ambitions.
The Shadow King (novel): '''''The Shadow King''''' is a 2019 novel by Ethiopian-American writer Maaza Mengiste, published by W. W. Norton & Company on September 24, 2019. It was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.
Life on the Ground Floor: '''''Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine''''' is an autobiographical book by Canadian doctor James Maskalyk about his work and reflections on working in emergency departments in St Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada, and Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as well as work in Cambodia and Bolivia.
Gennet Lives in Ethiopia: Gennet is seven years old and lives in Ethiopia.
The Dwarf (Cho novel): ''''The Dwarf''''' is the translation by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton of a Korean linked-story novel, (; lit. "A little ball launched by a dwarf"), written by Cho Se-hui and published in 1978. ''The Dwarf'' was a best-seller in Korea and was also made into a feature film titled ''A Small Ball Shot by a Midget'' (1980) by director Lee Won-se.
Beneath the Lion's Gaze: a 2010 novel by Ethiopian-American writer Maaza Mengiste. It describes a family in Addis Ababa in 1974, living through the transition from emperor Haile Selassie to rule by the Derg.
Our Twisted Hero: '''''Our Twisted Hero''''' () is a South Korean novel written by Yi Munyol. It is a political allegory of Korea's transition from dictatorship to democracy, with themes of how totalitarianism can crush intellectual opposition, either by intimidation or assimilation.
The Red Queen (Drabble novel): ''''The Red Queen''''' is a 2004 novel by British novelist Margaret Drabble. The novel describes the trip of a British academic on a trip to Seoul to give a paper at a conference. At the beginning of the novel, the academic, Dr. Babs Halliwell, reads the memoir of a 19th-century Korean princess.
The Garbage King: Laird was inspired to write the book after living and working in Ethiopia
Journals of Isenberg and Krapf: The '''''Journals of the Rev. Messrs. Isenberg and Krapf, Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, Detailing their proceedings in the kingdom of Shoa, and journeys in other parts of Abyssinia, in the years 1839, 1840, 1841 and 1842''''' is an 1843 journal published in 1843 at London. It contains the geographical memoir of the eastern part of the continent Africa, and most day by day events that took place in the original time of their happening. It is associated with the missionary works of Carl Wilhelm Isenberg and Johann Ludwig Krapf of the Church Missionary Society, and their encounter with the yet poorly known kingdom of Shewa in Ethiopia.