ABSTRACT
Historic Ethiopia, situated in lofty, often inaccessible, mountains between the Red Sea and the Blue Nile, and extending far into the Horn of Africa, was an ancient country, internationally long renowned. Since time immemorial it exercised an extraordinary fascination on the outside world. Ethiopia was also a complex, and at times mysterious country, which many foreigners found, and indeed still find, impossible to understand. The country appeared moreover to different peoples – and at differents times – in different, and frequently changing, guises. At the same time it was – and remains to this day – a highly photogenic country, as we hope the following pages will reveal.
