The Council of Egypt Condition:Good South Africa to Scandinavia

South Africa to Scandinavia

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When it was published in 1847

Philip Yeo is unlike any civil servant

The Council of Egypt Condition:Good South Africa to ScandinaviaPalermo, 1783: The barons pursue their feuds and petty plotting. Their wives indulge in forbidden French novels. And the porcine abbot Vella, eager to curry favour with Naples, 'invents' an ancient Arabic chronicle, The Council of Egypt, that enhances the rights of some families, rewriting Sicilian history. Over the ironies of plot and character, hangs the crueller irony of history. In the evocation of a country, its people and its traditions, this is