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- 2000
- year of publication
- 432
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- picador
- ISBN-13
- 978-03-3039-387-4
- EAN
- 9780330393874
- Publication date
- 2000-11-10
- Book
- The Abyssinian · 1 edition
The publisher on this edition
Set in 1700, towards the end of the reign of Louis XIV, it follows the fortunes of a brave apothecary, a talented but unofficial doctor, who is talked into leading an embassy from Cairo to Ethiopia . . . Rufin maintains a perfect balance between impatient detachment and compassionate curiosity. The Abyssinian , like Thackeray's Vanity Fair , carries the weight of history with good-humoured finesse