Past the desert coast of the Sahara lies St. Louis on the Senegal, where Jean Peyral, a young mountaineer from the Cévennes, serves as a spahi in the colonial cavalry. Homesick and drifting, he takes up with an African girl utterly devoted to him, while his pride and the faith he pledged to a sweetheart in France pull him another way.
An English version of Loti’s Le Roman d’un spahi, vividly atmospheric, with the colonial racial attitudes of 1881. Download the free EPUB.