# In Desert and Wilderness

By Henryk Sienkiewicz.

"In Desert and Wilderness" by Henryk Sienkiewicz is a young adult novel written in 1911. When fourteen-year-old Polish boy Staś and eight-year-old English girl Nell are kidnapped by rebels during the Mahdist War in Sudan, they endure a harrowing journey through the Sahara Desert. After a desperate act of survival leaves them stranded deep in Africa, the two children must navigate treacherous wilderness, dangerous wildlife, and disease as they search for rescue and a way home. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Translator: Max A. Drezmal
- Subjects: Africa -- Fiction; Bildungsromans; Wilderness survival -- Fiction; Children -- Fiction; Adventure stories; Kidnapping -- Fiction; Sudan -- History -- 1881-1899 -- Fiction

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