Desert Encounter: An Adventurous Journey through Italian Africa
by Holmboe, Knud
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Nice copy
- Seller
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MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Harrap, 1936. reprint. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 282pp., frontis., b/w pls., map, Account by a young Danish Moslem convert revealing the shocking way in which Italian Imperialism was practised in Abyssinia under General Graziani who executed 'rebels' at the rate of 30 a day. Vast concentration camps were guarded by native troops from Eritrea & the death penalty was applied for menial crimes. Also looks at the activities of guerillas under the command of Ahmar Moktar. He was eventually arrested & brutally deported
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- Bookseller
- Andrew Barnes Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 134811
- Title
- Desert Encounter: An Adventurous Journey through Italian Africa
- Author
- Holmboe, Knud
- Book Condition
- Used - Nice copy
- Edition
- reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harrap
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1936
- Size
- octavo
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- Octavo
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- Reprint
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