Dervish - Philip Warner - Softcover ANC10 ancient mysteries

ancient mysteries

island by island

This copy is in Excellentcondition

50 pages packed with photographs and drawings

35mm scale

Dervish - Philip Warner - Softcover ANC10 ancient mysteriesDervish is the vivid and colourful story of one of the more remarkable episodes in the high Empire period of British history. The Mahdis rising in the Sudan in the 1880s starting as a localized Holy War against the decadent Turkish Egyptian overlords, engulfed a million square miles of arid territory and forced the British Liberal Government to get involved after the early disasters of the Hicks expedition and Gordons death at Khartoum. The narrative,