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Classic Colonial Medicine Memoir

A Cure for Serpents

by Alberto Denti Di Pirajno

Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd

Paperback ISBN: 9780907871446 22 Dec 2005 216 x 141 x 19 (mm) 292g

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The Duke of Pirajno arrived in North Africa in 1924. For the next eighteen years his experiences as a doctor in Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somaliland provided him with opportunities and experiences rarely given to a European.

He brings us stories of noble chieftains and celebrated courtesans, of Berber princes and Tuareg entertainers, of giant elephants, and a lioness who fell in love with the author.