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Yussuf the Guide, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: John Schonberg
Release Date: May 8, 2007 [EBook #21378]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Yussuf the Guide
or, the Mountain Bandits, being a Story of Adventure in Asia Minor
by George Manville Fenn.
Lawrence is a boy in his late teens, who has consumption, which makes him feel very tired and helpless. He says one day that he would love a holiday somewhere hot and sunny. He has no relations, but there is a guardian, a local lawyer; and a doctor and a retired professor elect to go to Turkey with him, to look at the antiquities.
They travel first to Greece, where they find a lot of dishonesty, in particular in the crew of the little ship in which they sail to Turkey. Luckily they had sent their luggage on ahead, but the experiences they had were not very nice. They had already employed a very charming and resourceful Turk as guide.
But when they get to Turkey, they find that as they travel inland people become progressively less helpful, until eventually they are captured by bandits, and a ransom is dema