Title: The dash for Khartoum
First published: 1891
Description: Shamed by his mother's scheme to use him for financial gain from a wealthy colonel, Edgar joins the British cavalry, soon to become part of the ill-fated Nile Expedition. In Africa, Edgar is kidnapped by an Arab chieftain, and his brother Rupert, who has become part of the Expedition, sets out to search for him.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, action & adventure, Africa, fiction, Histoire, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Readers, Youth, Conduct of life, Brothers, Inheritance and succession, Soldiers, Wet nurses, Adoption, Youth and death, Courage
Places: Africa