Fabled, feared, romanticized, and reviled, the gypsiesor romaare among the least understood people on earth. Miles bredin lives in kenya with his wife, the economist jo nickolls, and his daughter zara. On the eighteenth century as a category of asian history. Alexander professor of history and russian and european studies, university of kansas robert a. In a time when africa was an unexplored blank on the map, he discovered the source of the blue nile, lived with the emperor of abyssinia at court in gondar, commanded the emperors horse guard in battle and fell in love with a princess.
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