The Tragedy of the Korosko

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Susan Iannucci, Sara Morsey, David Stifel, Andy Harrington, Denis Daly, Graham Scott, David Shears, Marty Krz, Trisha Rose, Ben Stevens, Linda Barrans, Russ Gold, JD Sutter

European tourists travel languidly along the Nile River to Abousir, at the southern frontier of Egypt, aboard “a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed stern-wheeler,” the Korosko. But Dervish warriors threaten danger and then attack and kidnap the tourists.

In this novel, Doyle explores themes of British Imperialism and a defensive European perspective on North Africa; racial paternalism; and debates on interference with other countries’ politics and religions. This wonderful novel was first published in 1898, long before Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile.

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