In 1886, a Frenchman named Arthur Rimbaud led a caravan across what is now Ethiopia. Although he was only 32, grey peppered his blonde hair. Hollow cheekbones, tanned beyond recognition, betrayed years of malnutrition and poverty. Only his eyes remained of the looks his childhood friends remembered: They were still a fierce, piercing blue. Despite his exhaustion, he often chose to walk alongside the caravan as it made its way through a wild, volcanic moonscape.
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