A Cure for Serpents
First English-language edition
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| Author | Alberto Denti di Pirajno |
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| Original title | Un medico in Africa |
| Language | Italian |
| Genre | Travel |
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Publication date
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1952 |
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Published in English
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1955 |
A Cure for Serpents: A Doctor in Africa is a 1952 travel book by Alberto Denti di Pirajno, later the Duke of Pirajno, an Italian doctor, writer and former colonial governor of Tripoli.[1] Set in Libya, Ethiopia and Somaliland, the book is a collection of anecdotes about various places he visited in his work as a physician in North Africa in the 1920s and the people he met, which includes tribal chieftains, Berber princes, courtesans and Tuareg tribesmen and of a lioness, which became part pet and part guard.[2] The book was translated into English in by Kathleen Naylor (1955)[lower-alpha 1] and French by Evelyne Mahyère (1956)[4]
Notes
Footnotes
- ↑ It was republished by Eland in 2005, with an Afterward by Dervla Murphy.[3]
Citations
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- ↑ http://www.travelbooks.co.uk/book_detail.asp?id=32
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- ↑ Mahyère, Eveline (1984). I Will Not Serve. London: Virago, pp. xiv–xv.
External links
- https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/alberto-denti-di-pirajno/a-cure-for-serpents/
- http://www.bmj.com/content/336/7636/161.2%7CThe British Medical Journal
- A Cure for Serpents at Internet Archive
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