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Diane , Armchair Tour Guide
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Aug 16, 2011 07:04PM
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Books with settings in Ethiopia:
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson
There Is No Me Without You by Melissa Fay Greene
Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood by Nega Mezlekia
Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel by Maaza Mengiste
Waugh in Abyssinia by Evelyn Waugh
The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuściński
In Search of King Solomon's Mines by Tahir Shah
Remote People by Evelyn Waugh
The Storyteller's Beads by Jane Kurtz (aka Mr. Bones)
In Ethiopia With a Mule by Dervla Murphy
Zarafa by Michael Allin
Horn of Africa: A Novel by Philip Caputo
The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird
Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia by Tim Bascom
The Fire on the Mountain and Other Ethiopian Stories by Harold Courlander
Held at a Distance: My Rediscovery of Ethiopia by Rebecca G. Haile
The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy by Philip Marsden
The Chains of Heaven: An Ethiopian Romance by Philip Marsden
Aithiopika by Heliodorus
Ethiopian Tattoo Shop by Edward Hays
Warrior King by Sahle Sellassie
The Four Quarters of the World by Karen Mercury
Cry of the Giraffe by Judie Oron
A History of Ethiopia by Harold G. Marcus
Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia by Paul B. Henze
Eating the Flowers of Paradise by Kevin Rushby
Sheba: Through the Desert in Search of the Legendary Queen by Nicholas Clapp
The Sign And The Seal: Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant by Graham Hancock
The Ethiopians: A History by Richard Pankhurst
The Hidden and Untold History of the Jewish People and Ethiopians by Fikre Tolossa
Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People's Republic by Edmond J. Keller
Golden Legends: Images of Abyssinia, Samuel Johnson to Bob Marley by W.B. Carnochan
Ethiopia at Bay: A Personal Account of the Haile Sellassie Years by John H. Spencer
The Templar Legion by Paul Christopher
The World of Girls and Boys in Rural and Urban Ethiopia by Eva Poluha
Gender and Poverty: Evidences from urban Ethiopia by MK Jaymohan
In Quest of the Sacred Baboon by Hans Kummer
Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia since Live Aid by Peter Gill
The Hospital by the River: A Story of Hope by Catherine Hamlin
Saba: Under the Hyena's Foot by Jane Kurtz
Survival and Modernization Ethiopia's Enigmatic Present by Messay Kebede
Oromia and Ethiopia by Asafa Jalata
Remapping Ethiopia: Socialism & After by Wendy James
The Rich Man and the Singer: Folktales from Ethiopia, by Mesfin Habte-Mariam
Riding the Whirlwind: An Ethiopian Story of Love and Revolution by Bereket Habte Selassie
Black Lions by Reidulf K. Molvaer
Unfortunate Marriage Of Azeb Yitades by Nega Mezlekia
Return by Sonia Levitin
The Four Quarters of the World by Karen Mercury
I have started a Listopia list of books set in Ethiopia here: Books Set in Ethiopia. I compiled the list from this thread plus other suggestions and recommendations found elsewhere on Good Reads and the Internet. Feel free to vote for your favorites and/or add books that I missed!
More books set in Ethiopia:
The Life of My Choice by Wilfred Thesiger
African Visas: A Novella and Stories by Maria Thomas
Flashman on the March by George MacDonald Fraser
Makeda by Prue Sobers
This Is A Soul: The Mission Of Rick Hodes by Marilyn Berger
Where There Is No Comfort, Seven Days in Ethiopia by Juliann Troi
Through These Veins by Anne Marie Ruff
Vessel of Honor by Melvin J. Cobb
"North of the blue Nile.:The Gumuz people" By Juan Gonzalez Nuñez. 2015 Shama Books.
More books set in Ethiopia:
The Abyssinian by Jean-Christophe Rufin
The Abyssinian Contortionist by David Carlin
The Abyssinians by David Buxton
The Afersata by Sahle Sellassie
All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
Amedeo: The True Story of an Italian’s War in Abyssinia by Sebastian O'Kelly
The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire by Raymond Jonas
Before She Breaks My Heart by Rahel Asgedom
Behind Walls & Glass by Mahtem Shiferraw
Birds of Prey by Wilbur Smith (9th book in Courtney series)
Black Dove, White Raven by Elizabeth Wein
Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead
Brothers at War: Making Sense of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War by Tekeste Negash
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