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A Desert Drama

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Book Overview: 

A group of European tourists are enjoying their trip to Egypt in the year 1895. They are sailing up the River Nile in a "a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed stern-wheeler", the Korosko. They intend to travel to Abousir at the southern frontier of Egypt, after which the Dervish country starts. They are attacked and abducted by a marauding band of Dervish warriors.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .th drooping eyelids as if he thought the desert hardly respectable, and had his doubts about the Universe. Behind them the whole party was strung along the bank in varying stages of jolting and discomfort, a brown-faced, noisy donkey-boy running after each donkey. Looking back, they could see the little lead-coloured stern-wheeler, with the gleam of Mrs. Belmont's handkerchief from the deck. Beyond ran the broad, brown river, winding down in long curves to where, five miles off, the square, white block-houses upon the black, ragged hills marked the outskirts of Wady Haifa, which had been their starting-point that morning.

"Isn't it just too lovely for anything?" cried Sadie, joyously. "I've got a donkey that runs on casters, and the saddle is just elegant. Did you ever see anything so cunning as these beads and things round his neck? You must make a memo, re donkey, Mr. Stephens. Isn't that correct legal English?"

Stephens looked at the pretty, anim. . . Read More

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This book is definitely a product of its times and there are a few bits here and there which were borderline racist, but it was also a cracking story of intrigue and adventure. Essentially, we follow a bunch of holidaymakers who’ve travelled to Egypt as they’re hijacked by camel-riding Arabs who pla

Peculiarly accurate description, from more than a century ago, of political and physical troubles generated by people of a certain religion…stuff that is happening today, 2013.

In this story, the reader is swept out of the placid stream of existence and dashed against the horrible jagged facts of lif

RTF

Although there is no end to the ways and manners in which a work can be read and analyzed, there are two main readings of this short novel which I want to focus on.

The first reading is one of otherness. The novel is obviously a pro-imperialist work, which preaches such doctrines as the white man bur

I bought this book autumn last year and have been meaning to read it. In the light of the terror attacks in Paris, I thought it would be a fitting tribute to read this book which is remarkably a reminder of the troubles our world faces today. After all, the pen is far mighter than the sword.

This st

This is the compelling story of a small group of European and American tourists cruising along the Nile in the late 1800's. They are kidnapped by a brutal group of Islamic terrorists, who insist they convert or die. Written by the author of the Sherlock Holmes series, the personality development of

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