Ethiopia - Culture Smart! by Sarah Howard

Ethiopia - Culture Smart! by Sarah Howard

Culture Smart! Ethiopia provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behaviour in Ethiopia, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. This concise guide will tell you what to

Culture Smart! has come to the rescue of hapless travellers..' Sunday Times Travel, ' the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries.' Global Travel, ' full of fascinating, as well as common sense, tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas.' Observer, ' as useful as they are entertaining.' Easy Jet Magazine, ' offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world.' New York Times

Sarah Howard is a botanical artist and writer who spent her childhood in Kenya. After graduating in African History and Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 1977, she became a journalist and researcher for two Anglican mission agencies, and undertook the archiving of the Leakey family papers in Kenya From 1989, after her marriage, she began commuting between Scotland and Ethiopia, running a coffee roasting business in the former, and travelling in the other. While living in Addis Ababa in the late 1990s she was illustrator to the team writing the Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea (Addis Ababa University), a long project in 10 volumes that was completed in 2009. Trained in botanical illustration at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Sarah is currently working on painting projects, with an ambition to enable residents, as well as visitors to Ethiopia, to identify the flora around them. She won a Gold Medal in 2016 from the Royal Horticultural Society, London, for a set of paintings of Horn of Africa Aloes, many of them endemic to Ethiopia. Sarah has written articles about the country, including for Selamta, the in-flight magazine of Ethiopian Airways, and for the Anglo-Ethiopian Society s magazine. She is a keen mountain walker and loves meeting people in their own settings.

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ISBN 13	9781857334944
ISBN 10	1857334949
Title	Ethiopia - Culture Smart!
Author	Sarah Howard
Series	Culture Smart!
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Kuperard
Year published	2009-10-06
Number of pages	168
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