| A Cure for Serpents | |
| Translator: | Kathleen Naylor |
| Author: | Alberto Denti di Pirajno |
| Language: | Italian |
| Genre: | Travel |
| Publisher: | Andre Deutsch |
| Pub Date: | 1955 |
| English Pub Date: | 1955 |
A Cure for Serpents: A Doctor in Africa is a 1955 travel book by Alberto Denti di Pirajno, later the Duke of Pirajno, an Italian doctor, writer and former colonial governor of Tripoli.[1] Set in Libya, Ethiopia and Somalia, the book is a collection of anecdotes about various places he visited in his work as a physician in North Africa in the 1920s and the people he met, which includes tribal chieftains, Berber princes, courtesans and Tuareg tribesmen and of a lioness, which became part pet and part guard.[2] The book was translated into English in the same year by Kathleen Naylor.[3] It was republished by Eland in 2005, with an Afterword by Dervla Murphy.[4]