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"The beginning of this story is a curious fact: In 1699, Louis XIV of France sent an embassy to the most mysterious and fabled of oriental sovereigns, the Negus, or King, of Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia). Louis' hope was to lure that country, nominally Christian for centuries, into the political and religious orbit of France."--BOOK JACKET.
"Jean-Baptiste Poncet, gifted young apothecary/physician to the pashas of Cairo, is the hero of this romantic epic embroidering upon the known details of that long forgotten embassy. Selected by the French consul to lead the mission, Poncet travels through the deserts of Egypt and Sinai and the mountains of Abyssinia to the court of the Negus, thence to Versailles and back again.
Along the way he falls madly in love with the consul's daughter, deals with intrigues of his fanatical Jesuit traveling companions, treats the Negus for a mysterious skin ailment, and gains a disastrous audience with the king of France."--BOOK JACKET.
"Friendship, humor, love, and discovery infuse this adventure, but there is a more serious theme as well. Poncet discovers the splendors of an exotic empire and civilization, and, thanks to him, Ethiopia will escape foreign conquest and preserve its mystery into our own times."--BOOK JACKET.
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