An interesting book about a curious region of the world...Ethiopia and specifically the mountains of Rasselas. Some really strange stuff here. Churches carved out of solid rock...down from the surface. Rumours of the arc of the covenant being kept here. Coleridge's poem Xanadu refers to an Abyssinian maid (originally on Mt Abora but he change the words). And a bunch of princes kept on a spire of rock (apparently about 80 x 40 m with 1000 steps to get up or down. They only came off the rock if they became king. (and obviously, not everyone was going to be king. So what a way to go. There seemed to be a lot of these monasteries in the sky on high "mesas". Anyway, a strange book ..very autobiographical -travel in orientation. I give it two stars. ( )