A Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy Of The Korosko

Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Historical Fiction

Narrators: David Wales

Number of Chapters: 10

Length: 5 hours and 15 minutes

Language: English

Also published under the title The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898). A group of European tourists are enjoying their trip to Egypt in the year 1895. They are sailing up the River Nile in a "a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed stern-wheeler", the Korosko. They intend to travel to Abousir at the southern frontier of Egypt, after which the Dervish country starts. They are attacked and abducted by a marauding band of Dervish warriors. The novel contains a strong defence of British Imperialism and in particular the Imperial project in North Africa. It also reveals the very great suspicion of Islam felt by many Europeans at the time. (Summary by Wikipedia)