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Towards Asmara

by Thomas Keneally

Set against the backdrop of war in the Horn of Africa, this novel follows a group of travellers and an Australian journalist determined to prove that the Ethiopians are gun-running.

Accession 10228 ISBN 0340415177 Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
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