Ten Years in Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp — Father Joseph Ohrwalder

Austrian missionary Father Joseph Ohrwalder spent ten harrowing years as a prisoner of the Mahdi and his successor the Khalifa in Sudan from 1882 to 1891. His dramatic escape and firsthand account of life inside the Mahdist state provides an extraordinary window into one of history's most remarkable captivity narratives.

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