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The Four Quarters of the World

The Four Quarters of the World

Author(s): Karen Mercury

Location(s): Ethiopia

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1866

Abyssinia, 1866. The crazed (some say) but dynamic Christian King of Kings has taken power of Tewodros II. His vision: to reunite Ethiopia under one crown, one God. To that end he moves his massive, gorgeously arrayed army from province to province. But rebellion is continuous and, in the end, he is Emperor of only the remote and inaccessible rock Magdala, where he holds political prisoners, spouses, and relations he tired of and fifty Europeans.

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