Golden legends
Subtitle: images of Abyssinia, Samuel Johnson to Bob Marley
By: W. B. Carnochan.
Publisher: Stanford General Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780804760980
Subjects: Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism; Ethiopia -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The call of Abyssinia : Father Lobo, Samuel Johnson and Rasselas; title: "Going native" : James Bruce, Mansfield Parkyns, Richard Burton; title: Interlude : Maqdala; title: Barbaric splendors, golden legends : Wilfred Thesiger, Evelyn Waugh, Sylvia Pankhurst; title: "I'm going to Ethiopia" : recent visitors; title: Remembering Zion.