In 1841 a British mission climbed from the Red Sea coast to the court of Sahle Selassie, king of Shoa. Harris, who led it, describes the desert crossing, the royal camp and its campaigns with thousands of cavalry, the churches, markets and slave trade of the highlands, and the people and wildlife of a country few Europeans had seen.
A vivid, opinionated record of Ethiopia before the age of empire, for readers of African history and Victorian exploration. Download the free EPUB.