The Dash for Khartoum 
Subtitle: A Tale of the Nile Expedition. Also includes Camp life in Abyssinia (Works of G. A. Henty)
Publisher: Preston-Speed Publications; Preston-Speed Pubns
Published: March 25, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781887159418
Subjects: Historical - General; Fiction - General; Fiction; General
First sentence: In a room in the married non-commissioned officers' quarters in the cantonments at Agra, a young woman was sitting looking thoughtfully at two infants who lay sleeping together on the outside of a bed with a shawl thrown lightly over them.