A tragédia do Korosko (Obras de Conan Doyle - Contos e Novelas Fantásticas #VIII)

[From Wikipedia] The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898) is a novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was serialized a year earlier in The Strand magazine between May and December 1897. It was later adapted into a play Fires of Fate by Doyle. The play was in turn twice adapted into film, a 1923 silent film and a 1932 talkie.

[Plot summary] A group of European tourists are enjoying their trip to Egypt in the year 1895. They are sailing up the River Nile in "a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed stern-wheeler", the Korosko. They intend to travel to Abousir at the southern frontier of Egypt, after which the Dervish country starts. They are attacked and abducted by a marauding band of Dervish warriors. The novel contains a strong defence of British Imperialism and in particular the Imperial project in North Africa. It also reveals the very great suspicion of Islam felt by many Europeans at the time....
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LA TRAGÉDIA DEL KOROSKO -- Arthur Conan Doyle
http://www.hislibris.com/la-tragedia-del-korosko-sir-arthur-conan-doyle/



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