Warriors
Life and Death Among the Somalis
$38.81
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
28 October 2004
Summary
During the war, Gerald Hanley spent several years in the remote and scorching deserts of Somalia. The rigours of living in such heat, and the difficulties of attempting to control blood-feuding nomads, led to the suicide of seven fellow-officers. Despite these problems, Gerald Hanley writes with great affection for the local clans, an affection that is untainted by sentimentality. “Of all the races of Africa, there cannot be one better to live among than the most difficult, the proudest, t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780907871835 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0907871836 |
| Author: | Gerald Hanley |
| Publisher: | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 28 October 2004 |
| Weight: | 295g |
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Gerald Hanley was an Irish catholic writer and broadcaster with an incurable wanderlust. He was married twice, first to a white Kenyan, then to a Kashmiri, and had nine children, but never settled. At the end of an adventurous life he romanced an Irish girl and dreamed of solving his financial problems by writing a massively successful movie script.
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