Breath taking in its frank and joyous account of extraordinary adventures, this book is the fruit of many years spent in the former North African colonies of Italy. The Duke's medical skills and genius for friendship made in welcome in gorgeous palace and humble tent. He tells of:
- His patients in closely guarded harems
- The veiled Tuaregs and their 'courts of love'
- The Negress who charmed poisonous scorpions
- The Arab with a serpent in his stomach
- The strange life and death of a pet lioness
The author, whose dukedom was created in 1642 by Philip IV, King of Spain and Sicily, joined the Italian Colonial Administration after five years' service in Africa as a doctor, and in 1941 became Governor of Tripoli.
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