A Cure for Serpents: A Doctor in Africa is a 1955 travel book by Alberto Denti di Pirajno, later the Duke of Pirajno, an Italian doctor, writer and former colonial governor of Tripoli.[1] Set in Libya, Ethiopia and Somalia, the book is a collection of anecdotes about various places he visited in his work as a physician in North Africa in the 1920s and the people he met, which includes tribal chieftains, Berber princes, courtesans and Tuareg tribesmen and of a lioness, which became part pet and part guard.[2] The book was translated into English in the same year by Kathleen Naylor.[3] It was republished by Eland in 2005, with an Afterword by Dervla Murphy.[4]

A Cure for Serpents
First English-language edition
AuthorAlberto Denti di Pirajno
TranslatorKathleen Naylor
LanguageItalian
GenreTravel
PublisherAndre Deutsch
Publication date
1955
Published in English
1955

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  1. ^ Timmis, C (2008). "Medical Classics: A Cure for Serpents". BMJ. 336 (7636): 161.2–161. doi:10.1136/bmj.39415.445556.0f. PMC 2206257.
  2. ^ "Eland Books". Archived from the original on 2015-09-19. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
  3. ^ "Amazon.ca". Amazon.ca. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  4. ^ "A Cure for Serpents". Eland Books. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
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