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”In Desert and Wilderness”
Henryk Sienkiewicz
„W pustyni i w puszczy”
The Novel teenagers
from 1912.
The adaptations of the book:
were in 1973 and 2001.
The action of novel sets in 1885
in Egypt and Sudan.
The main characters are the children Staś
Tarkowski (14) and Nel Rawlison (8). Their
father are engineers, who build Suez Canal.
 Mea – black
servant from
one of African
tribes. She was
Nel’s nanny after
the death of
Dinah ( her
previous nanny)
 Kali – black
servant and
children’s
companion, the
leader of WaHim EA tribe.
 In the period in which
we get to know about
heroes, there are
fights in Sudan again
Englishmen and the
local land owners,
reins of tribes.
Mohammed mahdi led
them ( he was the
leader in Nubia).
Children received some presents for
Christmas: Staś longed – for gun and Nel the
dog – Saba.
Saddenly their fathers had to go to El- Fajum,
in order to examine their workers.
The engineer's servant Chamis, coaxed
by Fatma decided to kidnap the children.
Fatma’s husband wanted to exchange the
children for his family.
Chamis informed Staś, that father
sended a telegram and asked him to
bring the boy immediately .
The Camels waited . Chamis with Gebhr
and Idrys would be their companions .
They were travelling very long and Staś
quessed that it was a kidnapping.
After a rest the caravan went to Khartoum. On
the road they met a different squad of Mahdi’s
fanatics, and found out that Smain (Fatima’s
husband) ”was hunting” in Faszoda. He wanted
to sell hunted people to slaves’ traders.
The Beduins with children left Khartoum.
They sailed by boat to Omdurman, where
Mahdi was during the way, the children met a
Greek man, who promised them his help and
and gave them some pills of quinine.
Mahdi promised his kindness to children, if
they will becomethe confessors of his science.
- Staś thought that , if he would accept the
offer he could do it only for fear and he would
be a coward.
Offended Mahdi ordered to take back the
children to Faszoda. He knew, that road
lead through wild areas and it meant the
children’s death. During the wander Gebhr
bullied two slaves – kali and Mea.
One day the caravan was in a ravine. First
animals felt danger . Soon the men saw
huge lion, lying onthe rock.
Gebhr decided to devote a slave (Kali). Stas
had disagreed, grabbed the gun and shot. Lion
roared and died. Kali was rescued.
The next day , children and their new friend’s
Kali and Mea mored on their journey.
A violent storm intersunted their rest.. In
vicinity they could hear roaring lions. They
ran away cinbed, on tree and were safe.
After a terrible night, , they moved in road.
The lions tore to pieces a part of their
belongings. They lost almost everything.
Two horses, dog called Saba, olonkey were
rescued.
Wandering children saw the tree with a huge
hollow in the trunk. - It was very old baobab.
They named it "Cracow" , they waited in it for
the end of.
Someday Kali noticed in the ravine an
imprisoned elephant , dying with hunger .
He wanted to kill him, but Nel asked him
not to do it.
They fed the animal. Nel asked Staś to make
the elephant free.
Nel had a fever and Staś decided to find
some quinine. He saw a smoke and thougut
that it could be a caravan.
The boy discovered a camp. In the camp was a
swiss geographer who had an enjured leg. He
was very in. His leg had gangrene. The
geographer asked Staś for looking afer his friend
a little boy Nasibu. What is more he gave needed
medicine and some tea.
Nel was almost healthy.
Staś promised her to make freethe elephant.
The next day Nel disappeared. Staś found her
in the ravine. She sat on elephant”s trunk and
talked with him. The boy couldn’t say
anything, the elephant seemed to be
domesticated.
They wandered several days, before they
found the place where they could stop on
longer and rest. They wanted to find a
tribe Wa-hima. The king of this tribe was
Kali’s father.
Children made from their bliststers some
kites. Stas and nel wrote on them their
request for rescue.
The areas through they arried seemed to
be safe. Staś permitted Nel to walk away from
the camp, but he went after her. He arrived in
time. He managed to kill a leopard, who
wanted to attack the girl.
After several days they reached to black .
Kali found out there, that his tribe leads the
war with another tribe. Samburu.
The Wa-hima tribe won (Staś had helped
them) and Kali after his father’s death
became a king.
Caravan moved further. The lack of water
stopped the caravan on a desert .
When the research for Nel and Staś seemed
to be hopeless, the capitan Glen and doctor
Clary found one of the kites sent by the
children and found the boy and and the girl.
After a long period of parting the fathers met
the children.
Father was proud of his son. Mr. Rawlison
thanked Staś for heroic rescue of his
daughter.
THE END
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