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Sport in Abyssinia - or The Mareb and Tackazzee - cover

Sport in Abyssinia - or The Mareb and Tackazzee

Earl of Mayo

Publisher: Aeneas Press

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Summary

A shooting expedition up the Mareb and the Tackazze in the 1870s, when almost nothing was known in England about the Abyssinian interior. Mayo was an Irish peer's son who went for the game and came back with the geography.
Available since: 09/16/2026.
Print length: 223 pages.

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