Set in the time of King Louis XIV of France, this baroque, romantic novel follows talented apothecary and physician Jean-Baptist Poncet on a diplomatic mission to Abyssinia, where he falls in love with the French consul's daughter, struggles with the intrigue of his Jesuit traveling companions, and saves the Ethiopian kingdom from European domination.
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Jean-Christophe Rufin is a founder of Doctors without Borders and author of the prize-winning first novel The Abyssinian. He lives in France.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Gebrochener Buchrücken / Seiten oder Softcover umgeknickt. The beginning of this story is a curious fact: In 1699, Louis XIV of France sent an embassy to the most mysterious of oriental sovereigns, the Negus, or King, of Abyssinia (modern-day Ethiopia). Louis' hope was to lure that country, nominally Christian for centuries, into the political and religious orbit of France. Jean-Baptiste Poncet, gifted young apothecary/physician to the pashas of Cairo, is the hero of this romantic epic embroidering upon the known details of that long-forgotten embassy. Selected by the French consul to lead the mission, Poncet travels through the deserts of Egypt and the mountains of Abyssinia to the court of the Negus, thence to Versailles and back again. Along the way he falls madly in love with the consul's daughter, treats the Negus for a mysterious skin ailment, and gains a disastrous audience with the king of France. Friendship, humor, love, and discovery infuse this gorgeous adventure, but there is a more serious theme as well. Poncet discovers the splendors of an exotic empire and civilization, and, thanks to him, Ethiopia will escape foreign conquest and preserve its mystery into our own times. In this internationally best-selling novel, Jean-Christophe Rufin, yokes the elegant language of the French enlightenment with the storytelling of Alexandre Dumas to bring us a splendid parable of liberty, religious fanaticism, and the possibility of happiness. Artikel-Nr. e877d0fe-46b7-4f84-abed-90923be8211a
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