The narrator, an old boy of Harton school, tells the story of himself and his friends from school holidays and a mysterious relative through to the Sudan war of the 1880s. Family secrets, a long paper-chase and a fateful choice lead them to the Nile, where the fighting with the Mahdi’s forces is anything but a game.
A Victorian boys’ adventure of Empire, whose attitudes to the war and the Sudanese belong to its time. Download the free EPUB.
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