Dust of the Danakil
by Ian Mathie
Price: $6.99 USD. 71860 words.
Language: English. Published by Mosaique Press on June 15, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
A gripping memoir of the 1974 humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia, Dust of the Danakil is a true story of an ill-conceived project in the violent, drought-stricken Danakil region. The author, sent by UK government pen-pushers to harness seasonal flood water and turn the notoriously aggressive Afar herdsmen into farmers, discovered a hostile environment that almost cost him him his life.