Author: Beckwith, Carol; Angela Fisher and Graham Hancock
Title: African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethopia and the Horn of Africa
Description: New York, H.N. Abrams, 1990. Hardcover. Silver cloth boards with silver spine lettering; color illustrated dust jacket with black lettering on gray spine, color frontispiece, 310 pp, profusely illustrated throughout in color. Contents: Prayers of stone : the Christian highlands: Lalibela and Axum -- The heavenly world : Gondar: the Falasha and Amhara -- The desert at the mountains' feet : Peoples of Eritrea and the Rift valley -- Empire of the senses : the Islamic coast -- Gaunt and leopard-coloured lands : Somali nomads of the Ogaden desert -- Spirit worlds : the Oromo pigrimage to Sheikh Hussein and the caves of Sof Omar -- Peoples of the morning : Southwest Ethipia: the Konso, Borana and Hamar -- Peoples of the wilderness : the Omo river and Southwest Ethiopia: the Bumi, Mursi, Anauk, Nuer and Surma -- Epitaph to an idea : the Karo of the Omo river. VG/VG .

Keywords: African Art ; African Manners and Customs ; ; General Art - African


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