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|title=Dust of the Danakil
|author=Ian Mathie
|publisher=Mosaique Press
|date=March 2012
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906852138</amazonuk>
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|website=http://www.ianmathie.com
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|summary=The latest in Ian Mathie's African Memoir series gives a close-up on international aid in Ethiopia in 1974, as Ian heads up a water engineering scheme to help the drought-ridden Danakil region. Exciting, well-written and true!
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I enjoyed all three of Ian Mathie’s previous books so it’s probably no surprise to find me praising this one too. Already, for me, this writer has set a high bar with his pared, modest prose and authentic descriptions of life as an educated white man with unsophisticated mid-African tribes in the middle of the twentieth century. His everyday life in this book is a perilous adventure – modern travel memoirs seem banal by comparison.

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