8vo. xx, 251 pp. 3 maps, cloth in d/w, biblio. index, previous owner’s name inscribed verso front & lower cover, otherwise copy in mint condition, Frank Cass, London, first edition, 1980.

Synopsis

This is a study of Ethiopia and the Red Sea region from the beginning of the second millennium A.D. until the 19th century. It focuses on the Horn of Africa from the rise of the Solomonic dynasty in 1270 until the onset of its accelerated decline in the 17th century.