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050 00 $aPR149.E84$bC37 2008
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100 1 $aCarnochan, W. B.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83042050
245 10 $aGolden legends :$bimages of Abyssinia, Samuel Johnson to Bob Marley /$cW.B. Carnochan.
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford General Books,$c2008.
300 $a173 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 153-160) and index.
505 00 $tPrelude: Jamaica, 1981 -- $gCh. 1.$tThe Call of Abyssinia: Father Lobo, Samuel Johnson, and Rasselas -- $gCh. 2.$t"Going Native": James Bruce, Mansfield Parkyns, Richard Burton -- $tInterlude: Maqdala -- $gCh. 3.$tBarbaric Splendors, Golden Legends: Wilfred Thesiger, Evelyn Waugh, Sylvia Pankhurst -- $gCh. 4.$t"I'm Going to Ethiopia": Recent Visitors -- $gCh. 5.$tRemembering Zion -- $tPostlude: Very Fast Running.
520 1 $a"From the eighteenth century to the present, travellers, explorers, journalists, imaginative writers like Samuel Johnson, and legendary reggae musician Bob Marley have shared a fascination with Abyssinia. So did even earlier writers and mapmakers, who thought Abyssinia was the land of the mythical (and fabulously rich) Christian ruler, Prester John." "The principal subject of this book is the allure of the exotic, as represented by Abyssinia, to the British imagination. In addition to Johnson and Marley, some others included are the eighteenth-century Scot James Bruce, nineteenth-century explorer Richard Burton, author Evelyn Waugh, Wilfred Thesiger (best known of twentieth-century British explorers), Sylvia Pankhurst (crusading journalist and daughter of the suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst), and the contemporary Irish traveller Dervla Murphy. The author also considers the beginnings of anthropology and the variations of quest narrative in modern travel writing."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aEthiopia$xIn literature.
650 0 $aTravelers' writings, English$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112987
650 0 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043833
852 00 $bglx$hPR149.E84$iC37 2008