Harry Blount, Terence O’Connor, Colin Macpherson and the seaman Bill are wrecked on the desert coast of north-west Africa and fall into the hands of nomad slave-traders. Passed from master to master across the sands, they plot escape and a ransom that may never come. A memoir of Reid opens the volume.
Classic boys’ adventure from 1865 by the author of The Scalp Hunters; its portraits of Arabs and Africans carry the prejudices of its day. Download the free EPUB.