A History of Ethiopia: Volume II (Routledge Revivals)

This is the second volume of Sir E. A. Wallis Budge’s narrative account of Ethiopian history, first published in 1928, and carries on the chronicle of the Kings of Abyssinia where the first volume ended: the death of Lebna Dengel in 1540.The author devotes considerable attention to an overview of the cultural, social and political idiosyncrasies of the Ethiopian people: literature, spells and magic, architecture, ethnography, the alphabet, and a wide range of other engrossing topics.