Letters from Abyssinia
1916 and 1917 by Major Hugh Drummond Pearson, R.E.
ISBN Code : 0974819808
Editor : Frederic A. Sharf
Commentaries by : Richard Pankhurst
Language : English
Pages number : 251
Format : Hardcover; 6″X9″; Illustrations
Publication date : 07/24/2007
$34.95
Description
This book explores the complicated position which Abyssinia, today is known by its proper name Ethiopia, occupied in the early 20th-century political universe. Major Pearson’s letters provide a unique vantage point from which one can examine the interests of the major world powers in this fiercely independent country — the only country in Africa not then under some European domination.
Pearson’s observations have been integrated with official Foreign Office communications in order to provide the reader with a complete context.
This book will appeal not only to scholars interested in further knowledge of Ethiopian history, but also to a wide audience of people interested in World War I, which intersected many far-flung countries, some of which are the setting for Pearson’s letters: Egypt, Sudan, Abyssinia, French, and British Somaliland.