I should warn you, the Gordon story only takes up a relatively small section of the book. There’s a lot of stuff about the rulers of Egypt and Turkey and the Sudan, which I didn’t retain because of my shocking ignorance. Might be better to check this one out from the library first, and see what you think.

Except I forgot about the Dutch! I’m terrible!

I feel like I’m embarking on a phase of reading all about the Middle East. It is a fascinating region of the world, and every country has its own particularly intriguing history. I know a bit about Iran, and now I know a bit about Egypt, but in the grand scheme of things, almost nothing. It makes me feel sad for myself. ;p

“Bumble into creating empires” is a perfect description of it. All the while people in Britain screaming and carrying on about how wicked it would be to take over the countries in question. It’s fascinating.

One of my projects at work is dealing with Egypt and the Sudan, and that’s what piqued my interest in this book. I really wanted to get a recently-published book all about Gordon and the Mahdi, but the library’s only copy is non-circulating. I don’t understand why, the book was published in 2004, it’s not like it’s old and rare. Hrmph.

I want to read Season of Migration to the North! I think I probably put it on my book list after you reviewed it, but yeah, it’s definitely on my radar.

Yes!

Any time. It’s sad, no?

Bahahahaha, I knew you would not be able to resist. There is something about those books that cannot be resisted. And no, I did not know about this adventure novels page! I have to investigate! This is going to be terrible for my reading list.