Radich, V.A.: Across Abyssinia

Title

Po Abissinii, Moskva 1910

Across Abyssinia

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Summary

The book features a preface, eleven letters, and twenty-one illustrations. The preface explains that the author of these travel notes tragically died in a hunting accident while pursuing a lion. Following the preface, the subsequent letters delve into the narrator’s impressions regarding present day Ethiopia and Eritrea nature, architecture, society, customs, food, religion, and education. The book’s illustrations predominantly feature landscapes, architectural structures, portraits of local inhabitants, and depictions of various objects and crafts. In the last letter the narrator expresses his intention to embark on his first lion hunting expedition. The book ends with the author of the preface asserting that the letters end at this point, as the lion hunt marked the narrator’s final adventure.

Bio

Vasilii Radich was a writer and author of historical works and short stories for children. In 1903 he published a story about the life of the Ukrainian clergy of the XVIII century (On Guard of Orthodoxy: A Narrative of the Life of the Ukrainian Clergy of the XVIII Century). A collection of Radich’s short stories entitled Tumbleweeds; The Leshii: Short Stories came out in 1908. He also wrote under the pseudonym “Chidar”.

Sources

I. Masanov, Slovar’ psevdonimov russkikh pisatelei, uchenykh i obshchestvennykh deiatelei, t. 4, Moskva 1960, p. 396.

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