African Ark: Peoples Of The Horn
by Beckwith, Carol & Angela Fisher (photos) & Graham Hancock (text)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Collins Harvill, London 1990. 35.0 x 26.0cms, 320pp, colour illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper This book covers: the Christian highlands (Lalibela & Axum): Gondar (the Falasha & Amhara): the peoples of Erirea & the Rift Valley: the nIslamic coast, Somali nomads of the Ogaden Desert; the Oromo pilgrimage to Sheikh Hussein & to the caves of Sof Omar' Southeast Somalia (the Konso, Borana & Hamar); the Omo River & southwest Ethiopia (the Bumi, Mursi, Anuakm Nuer & Surma)' the Karo of the Omo Rover.
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- Bookseller
- THE CROSS Art + Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 191580
- Title
- African Ark: Peoples Of The Horn
- Author
- Beckwith, Carol & Angela Fisher (photos) & Graham Hancock (text)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collins Harvill, London 1990
- Keywords
- horn of africa ethiopia somalia Djibouti
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THE CROSS Art + Books
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales
About THE CROSS Art + Books
THE CROSS ART + BOOKS
We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
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