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The Abyssinian by Jean-Christophe Rufin

stef369's review against another edition

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5.0

Nog een rasechte avonturenroman!
Het doet me met nostalgie denken aan toen ik de boeken van Karl May las: die ongelofelijk spannende avonturen... Dit boek leest als een trein - hoewel het heel dik is... Het is met veel humor en spirit geschreven en sleept je mee tot het einde. Een leuk, tof boek. Je kan je het hoofdpersonage niet meer wegdenken...

ph230's review against another edition

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4.0

It was really an unputdowntable story that mixes adventures and historical facts.

I really enjoyed it!

alizaryn's review against another edition

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3.0

Un sympathique roman d'aventures, écrit sur la toile historique de l'évangélisation d'Abyssinie voulue par le roi Louis XIV. Mais un tel sujet aurait mérité une réflexion bien plus profonde sur la colonisation et l'évangélisation!

sarah42783's review against another edition

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4.0

Le roman de Rufin que je préfère. Une excellente lecture!

lnatal's review against another edition

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3.0

This is story of Jean-Baptiste Poncet and his travels crossing the deserts of Egypt, arriving to Abyssinia - the Ethiopian Empire and then back to Versailles, in France.

According to Wikipedia, "the Ethiopian Empire covered a geographical area that the present-day northern half of Ethiopia and Eritrea covers, and included in its peripheries Zeila, Djibouti, Yemen and Western Saudi Arabia. It existed from approximately 1137 (beginning of Zagwe Dynasty) until 1974 when the monarchy was overthrown in a coup d'etat."



ahatpin's review

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2.0

A fun but rather silly book that really suffers in translation. Read in French if possible. Author has an axe to grind with the diplomatic corps!
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