The Tragedy of the Korosko

By Arthur Conan Doyle

Book Overview

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish author who found fame writing about the detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was a prolific writer who also wrote science fiction, historical novels, plays, romances,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0934468478
• ISBN13: 9780934468473
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Gaslight Pubns
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

What's old is new again

An excellent read! Published in 1898 this novel tells the story of a small group of western tourists on holiday in northern africa. Taken hostage by a nomadic tribe of arab muslims, these westerners are faced with the stark choice of conversion to Islam or death. A facinating commentary on the cultural divide between western Christianity and eastern Islam with an insightful dialouge around the "white man's burden" as only the English could tell it.