Name: The Tragedy of the Korosko
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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 9781438527598

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Editorial:: Standard Publications
Año de edición:: 2009
Materia: Aventura
ISBN:: 9781438527598

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Although Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and non-fiction. The Tragedy of the Korosko was first published in 1898. It is the story of group of European tourists who are on a trip to Egypt in 1895. They are sailing up the River Nile in a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed stern-wheeler named the Korosko. They have planned to travel to Abousir located at the southern frontier of Egypt. They are attacked and abducted by a marauding band of Dervish warriors.

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