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This charming book by Alberto Denti (who later became the Duke of Pirajno), an Italian who went to north Africa as a doctor in 1924 and stayed for 18 years, is a collection of stories, mostly about his patients. He later worked as an administrator and eventually became the governor of Tripoli, handing the town to General Montgomery in 1943.
In 1924 Libya was an Italian colony, and Dr Denti was attached to a military force led by the Duke of Aosta. His duties included the care of soldiers' families at a remote coastal station east of Tripoli. Inevitably his services were also sought by the local population, whose...