Author: Pakenham, Thomas.
Title: The Mountains of Rasselas. An Ethiopian Adventure.
Description: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1998 2nd edition (1st edition thus). Title argent on navy blue cloth boards. Illustrated colour 4to. 300mm x 250mm x 20mm. 1.3kg. No inscriptions. A Fine copy in VG+ dustwrapper (minor wear, no chips, tears, or loss). An excellent copy. ISBN: 9780297823698 An updated and illustrated version of the original edition published in 1959. Author retraces his footsteps, adding historical insight and new colour photography to his original story with its original illustrations. "In preparing this new edition I have added various photographs, including twenty in colour taken this year. I have also corrected a few misjudgments in spelling ... and excised some detail that seemed irrelevant to the main narrative. Otherwise I have left the book as I wrote it: a period piece".

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