Fourteen-year-old Stasch Tarkowski, son of a Polish engineer on the Suez Canal, and his young English friend Nell are kidnapped during the Mahdist rising and carried into the Sudan. Escaping their captors, they cross desert and jungle with two African companions, Kali and Mea, facing lions, fever and hunger as Stasch grows into a leader.
The Nobel laureate’s adventure novel for young readers, a classic in Poland; its colonial outlook is of 1911. Download the free EPUB.