The Lure of the Honey Bird - Elizabeth Laird

The Lure of the Honey Bird

The Storytellers of Ethiopia

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Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2013
Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited (Verlag)
978-1-84697-246-1 (ISBN)
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Best-selling, award-winning author Elizabeth Laird has written this stunning memoir describing her travels to the remote regions of Ethiopia.
In 1967, at the age of 23, Elizabeth Laird set off for Addis Ababa to take up her first teaching post. She was introduced to Haile Selassie, made a pilgrimage across the mountains on foot to the ancient city of Lalibela, hitched a ride on an oil tanker across the Danakil Desert, and was arrested for a murder she had not committed. Back in Britain, Laird established herself as a major author of fiction for children and young adults, but she always wanted to return to Ethiopia. Her chance came in the late 1990s, when the British Council in Addis Ababa invited her to collect folk stories from every region of the country. Encountering ex-guerrilla fighters, camel traders, Coptic nuns and tribespeople en route, Laird has written a remarkable account of her journey interwoven with a treasure trove of stories featuring princes and maidens, snakes and lions, zombies and hyena-women.

Elizabeth Laird was born in New Zealand in 1943, the fourth of five children. In 1945, Laird and her family returned to Britain and she grew up in South London, where she was educated at Croydon High School. After attending the university in Bristol, Laird began teaching English in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She and a friend would hire mules and go into remote areas in the holidays. Laird has also visited Iraq and Lebanon. She claims to dislike snakes, porridge and being cold but enjoys very dark chocolate, Mozart, reading and playing the violin in the Iraq Symphony Orchestra. She and her husband currently divide their time between London and Edinburgh.

Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 137 x 213 mm
Gewicht 494 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Reisen Reiseberichte Afrika
ISBN-10 1-84697-246-9 / 1846972469
ISBN-13 978-1-84697-246-1 / 9781846972461
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