Crime fiction set in WYOMING and MONTANA
In Desert and Wilderness
Location(s): Africa, Egypt, Kenya, South Sudan, The Sudan
Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
Era(s): 1884
A fourteen year old Polish boy and his British friend Nell are kidnapped by extremists in 1884 British Colonial Africa. They are taken hostage deep into uncharted wilderness, where they must struggle to survive with the help of their young African friends, a courageous dog and a rescued elephant. This is the only novel for young people written by Sienkiewicz, who won the Nobel Prize for his body of work. It became an anthem for the Polish people at a time when their partitioned country was not on the map. However, the 1910 translation into English reflected the race and gender stereotypes of the time. This modern translation brings Sienkiewicz’s thrilling adventure story from the original Polish to a new generation of readers in English.
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