The Danakil Diary

This is the account of two journeys Thesiger made into Danakil country in Abyssinia, now Ethiopia, in 1930-34. He managed to survive in a dangerous country among the Danakil tribesmen where a man's status depended on the number of men he killed and castrated.

• | Author: Wilfred Thesiger
• | Publisher: Flamingo
• | Publication Date: February 16, 1998
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0006387756
• | ISBN-13: 9780006387756