TEN YEARS CAPTIVITY IN THE MAHDI'S CAMP, 1882-1892 (Signed by the author)

First Edition: xiii, 460 pages, frontispiece, 22 illustration (5 full page), 2 folding maps at the end, original pictorial olive green cloth, tilted and decorated on the upper cover and spine, fore-edges uncut, light foxing on the title page, bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper, a very good copy inscribed by the author beneath his name on the title page.

Royal Collection Trust (https://www.rct.uk/collection/1079822/ten-years-captivity-in-the-mahdis-camp-1882-1892-from-the-original-manuscripts-of), Joseph Ohrwalder (d.1913) was an Austrian Catholic priest working in the Sudan when in 1882, members of the Mahdiyya forces took him and two nuns captive. He wrote this memoir over the next ten years before they eventually escaped with the assistance of the British officer Francis Reginald Wingate. Wingate published these translations of Ohrwalder’s diary in 1892 as part of a propaganda campaign to increase British public support for further military action in the region.