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The Dash for Khartoum

George Alfred Henty

The Dash for Khartoum

Paper book: €45.99

Digital: €7.99

Original publication
1892
Monolingual
12 June 2026
Pages
961
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
History, Adventure
Moods
Escape it all, Travel back in time
Translated from
English

Book summary

In India, two babies are mixed up: the son of a captain and the son of a sergeant. Unable to tell which one is his, Captain Clinton brings up both boys as twins, Rupert and Edgar. When Edgar is sixteen, a stranger tells him that she is his real mother, and he runs away to join the army under a false name.

With him, we travel up the Nile alongside the expedition sent to relieve General Gordon, besieged in Khartoum in 1884. A story of war and brotherly friendship that closely follows a very real campaign.

Full of action, it is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

Chłopiec poznaje tajemnicę swoich narodzin. W Indiach dwoje niemowląt zostaje pomylonych: syn angielskiego kapitana i syn sierżanta. Nikt już nie wie, który jest który.

The world of the book

Sudan w 1884 roku: oblężone miasto. W 1881 roku Sudan, rządzony przez Egipt, buntuje się. Na czele powstania staje przywódca religijny zwany Mahdim.

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