A Cure for Serpents explained

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]

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  1. 2206257 . 336 . 7636 . 161.2–161 . BMJ . Medical Classics: A Cure for Serpents . 10.1136/bmj.39415.445556.0f . 2008 . Timmis . C .
  2. Web site: Eland Books . 2015-09-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150919060144/http://www.travelbooks.co.uk/book_detail.asp?id=32 . 2015-09-19 .
  3. Web site: Amazon.ca . Amazon.ca . 2024-07-02.
  4. Web site: A Cure for Serpents. Eland Books. 15 September 2016.