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This is a message from OneWorld Magazine about our
current feature special which is dedicated to Ethiopia
and called "ETHIOPIA, LAND OF PLENTY". In this special
ten different expert authors write about this rich and
diverse empire about such topics as searching for the lost
ark, hiking in the African mountains, exploring the people
and the history of the land of Zion.

   http://www.envirolink.org/oneworld/focus/etiopia/

Our goal is to presents the reader with a vigorous,
lasting and sensible image about Ethiopia, acting as an
introduction to the region's cultural heritage, the wealth
and uniqueness of its environment and its potential for
travel and adventure.

A description or brief excerpt of the stories in the
ETHIOPIA feature follow:

o GUILT AND CULTURE
  An Introduction by Philip Briggs

  "A common response to a country like Ethiopia is to feel that
  it is wrong to enjoy ourselves amid such suffering, that
  tourism is frivolously out of context in such a poor country..."

  http://www.envirolink.org/oneworld/focus/etiopia/intro.html

o THE LOST ARK OF THE COVENANT
  by Graham Hancock

  "Biblical and other archaic sources speak of the Ark of the
  Covenant blazing with fire and light, inflicting cancerous
  tumours and severe burns, levelling mountains, stopping
  rivers, blasting whole armies and laying waste cities."

  http://www.envirolink.org/oneworld/focus/etiopia/ark.html

o THE LOST CITIES OF AFRICA by Basil Davison

  "What can be said about this past-about the formative fifteen
  or twenty centuries, that is, before European discovery and
  conquest? What can be said and what, where present
  knowledge fails, is it reasonable to believe? [This story] is an
  attempt -- necessarily tentative, summarized, and selective --
  to answer these questions against a background of the whole
  of Africa south of the Sahara."

  http://www.envirolink.org/oneworld/focus/etiopia/lost.html

o HAILE SELLASSIE AND MUSSOLINI
  by Harold C. Marcus

  "In September 1934, Mussolini had decided to take
  Ethiopia... Most observers at the time were ignorant of
  Ethiopia's historic refusal to abandon its independence. They
  did not reckon on the steel spine of Haile Sellassie and his
  compatriots' deeply entrenched anti- Italian attitudes."

  http://www.envirolink.org/oneworld/focus/etiopia/musso.html

o SURVIVING SALVATION
  by Dr. Ruth Westheimer & Dr. Steven Kaplan

  "Israel's success record in secret operations under the
  harshest of conditions is unrivaled... The resettlement of the
  Ethiopians is neither secret nor dramatic. It is, in fact, a long,
  complex process whose heroes usually go unnoticed."

  http://www.envirolink.org/oneworld/focus/etiopia/falasha.html

o RASTAFARI ROOTS AND IDEOLOGY by Barry Chevannes

  "In spite of pressure by the police on the Rastafari for ganja
  and other alleged offenses, I have not come across a single
  instance of a Bobo being arrested or detained. As Bobo, they
  retreated further away from the world of the profane, cutting
  themselves off and maintaining the separation by a ritual
  distance."

  http://www.envirolink.org/oneworld/focus/etiopia/rasta.html

o WOMEN IN POWER by Lucy Pankhurst

  "Lucy, alias Dinknesh - literally "you are lovely" - is the first
  woman in Ethiopian history, indeed in the history of the
  world. She was a dainty little person, an intrepid walker who
  came down from the trees some three million years ago in the
  Afar region of eastern Ethiopia..."

  http://www.envirolink.org/oneworld/focus/etiopia/women.html

o AFRICA HIGH & WILD
  by Beyond Productions for The Discovery Channel

  The making of a documentary, "their story is not about the
  physical achievement of an extensive African mountain trek,
  great as it is, but an adventure story where the journey - the
  people, places and experience shared - becomes tantamount
  to the mountaineering feats fulfilled."

  http://www.envirolink.org/oneworld/focus/etiopia/highwild.html

o THE OMO AND BLUE NILE RIVERS
  by ADRIFT EXPEDITIONS

  "If you enjoy the wild and the untouched and would like to
  witness first hand a remnant of what Africa must have been
  like before man, then Ethiopia is for you... Outdoor
  challenges in a country where culture and traditions date back
  over 3000 years."

  http://www.envirolink.org/oneworld/focus/etiopia/adrift.html

o GELADA BABOONS
  by Linda Waddell of Partridge Films:

  "They are the gelada baboons of Ethiopia and they are found
  nowhere else in the world. Their main home is in the
  beautiful and rugged Simen Mountains, an area of ancient
  volcanoes in northern Ethiopia."

  http://www.envirolink.org/oneworld/focus/etiopia/baboon.html

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