The Mahdi

Karl May’s In the Land of the Mahdi: The Mahdi opens his expansive Sudan trilogy with a tale of captivity, pursuit, and political upheaval set against the Mahdist revolt in late nineteenth-century Northeast Africa. Blending adventure fiction with travel narrative, May constructs a vivid, fast-moving world of deserts, caravan routes, tribal conflict, and imperial intrigue. As in his best-known work...