Author: Pakenham, Thomas.
Title: The Mountains of Rasselas. An Ethiopian Adventure.
Description: Seven Dials. London 1999 1st edition thus. 175pp softcover illustrated colour 4to 290m x 240mm x 15mm. 1.0kg. Neat gift inscription, 2 minor repairs not immediately noticeable, contents otherwise unmarked, hence a VG copy. ISBN: 9781841880051 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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