When Leopold ellman - The son of a banker - inherits a substantial wealth, he sets off for The Sudan in search of adventure. Never in his wildest fantasies could he have imagined the perilous trip that awaited him...
Helped by his muslim servant, he embarks on a relentless pursuit of so-called 'slave hunters'.
Will he ever return safely home to his worried mother and loving fiance?
Henry Wermuth started writing at the ripe age of eighty. Since then he has written a number of fiction and non-fiction books, of which this is his seventh."

When Leopold ellman - The son of a banker - inherits a substantial wealth, he sets off for The Sudan in search of adventure. Never in his wildest fantasies could he have imagined the perilous trip that awaited him...
Helped by his muslim servant, he embarks on a relentless pursuit of so-called 'slave hunters'.
Will he ever return safely home to his worried mother and loving fiance?
Henry Wermuth started writing at the ripe age of eighty. Since then he has written a number of fiction and non-fiction books, of which this is his seventh."

11th Edition

Reviews 'This book is an epic account of physical strength, low cunning, pluck, luck and an indomitable will to live.'
The Independent on Sunday

'At first, he recoils from trying to convey the extremity of anguish, the enormity of what really happened in situations unimaginable to anyone except the participants...
Wermuth's Claim to fame is that he had the opportunity to assassinate Hitler, which he did his best to take...'
The Jewish Chronicle

'As well as a heartbreaking diary it is a manual of survival skills...'
Daily Telegraph Magazine

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