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The Ordeal [from Life in the Desert or Recollections of Travel in Asia and Africa, translated from the French by Mr. C. D. Shapley]

du Couret, I. "The Ordeal [from Life in the Desert or Recollections of Travel in Asia and Africa, translated from the French by Mr. C. D. Shapley]." New-York Saturday Press. 18 Sep. 1860: 1.
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Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
travelogue
Abstract: 

This travelogue tells of a series of challenges the narrator must pass through in order to be trusted by the Nagib of an African kingdom. The main character narrowly avoids death several times only to be confronted by a new perilous situation.

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Shanly (Shanley), Charles translator

AUTHOR(S) OF - The Ordeal [from Life in the Desert or Recollections of Travel in Asia and Africa, translated from the French by Mr. C. D. Shapley]

Shanly (Shanley), Charles

Charles Dawson Shanly emigrated to New York City from Ireland via Canada and was working as the Assistant Secretary o