Through the Desert — Henryk Sienkiewicz

Excerpt

“Nell, do you know,” said Stasch Tarkowski to his friend, an English girl, “that yesterday the Sabties (policemen) arrested the wife and children of Overseer Smain—the same Fatima who often visited our fathers’ offices?”

Little Nell, as pretty as a picture, looked up at Stasch with her greenish eyes, and half astonished, half afraid, asked: “Have they put them in prison?”

“No, but they would not allow them to travel to Sudan, and an officer has been stationed to watch them so as to prevent their taking a step outside of Port Said.”

Description

Nobel Prize-winning author Henryk Sienkiewicz's epic adventure novel follows young Staś Tarkowski and his companion Nel as they journey through the deserts and jungles of Sudan and East Africa after being kidnapped by followers of the Mahdi. A thrilling tale of courage, survival and friendship against the backdrop of the Mahdist uprising — one of the great adventure novels of world literature.

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