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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

一個男孩得知自己身世的祕密。在印度,兩個嬰兒被弄混了:一個是英國上尉的兒子,一個是中士的兒子。再也沒人知道誰是誰。

The world of the book

1884年的蘇丹:一座被圍困的城市。1881年,受埃及統治的蘇丹爆發起義,領導者是一位被稱為「馬赫迪」的宗教領袖。

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