The Ethiopia Book of Travels

<p><strong><em>S</em></strong>urviving a lightning strike sleeping with deadly scorpions and snakes crossing a volcano or having an audience with Lady Desta and her thirty slaves the English agent ��rmin V��mb��ry or sultans and emperors. These were all in a day's work for Azmz��de Sad��k el-M��eyyed an Ottoman officer statesman and truly a renaissance man. </p><p><strong><em>T</em></strong><em>he Ethiopia Book of Travels</em> takes you to June 1904 to accompany Sad��k Pasha on a mission for Sultan Abdulhamid II to go before Emperor Menelik II the ruler of Ethiopia. One of three missions to Africa by Sad��k Pasha to counter the scramble for Africa by West European powers this volume is a companion to <em>Journey in the Grand Sahara of Africa and Through Time</em>. I hope you enjoy the journey.</p>