The Mahdi II
By: by Karl May ; translated by Herbert Windolf
Contributors: Windolf, Herbert, 1936-
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015
Place of publication: San Bernardino, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9781515172000
Description: This sequel to The Mahdi I sees the protagonist, aka Karl May, traveling up the Nile in pursuit of slavers and other rogues. He meets in fiction the future Mahdi who established a theocratic empire covering most of the Sudan to be defeated only in the late 1800s. The narrator's exploits are vividly described, covering the local cultures, geography, fauna and flora.