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Camping in the Sahara
CAMPING IN THE SAHARA by E. M. HULL. Originally published in 1927. EXCERT: It was two years since our last visit to Touggourt. Warned in the meantime that progress and civilization were advancing into the desert by leaps and bounds we approached it again with misgivings. So when at last, late on a hot Sunday afternoon, the train from the north wound slowly into the tiny terminus, it was cheering to find that the town was still unaltered and unspoiled.
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1926
About the author
E.M. Hull
31 books22 followersSee also Edith Maude Hull.
Edith Maude Henderson was born on 16 August 1880 in the Borough of Hampstead, London, England, UK, the daughter of Katie Thorne, of New Brunswick, Canada, and James Henderson, a shipowner from Liverpool.
As a child she travelled widely with her parents, even visiting Algeria, the setting of her novels. In 1899, she married Percy Winstanley Hull (b. 1869) in London and the couple moved to Derbyshire in the early 1900s. They had a daughter Cecil Winstanley Hull, who also wrote a book entitled 'Six Weeks in Algeria' (1930).
She dabbled at writing fiction in the late 1910s while her husband was away serving in World War I. 'The Sheik', her initial effort, was first published in England in 1919 and quickly became an international blockbuster, placing it among the top ten best sellers for both of the years 1921 and 1922 in the magazine 'Publishers Weekly'.
'The Sheik' quickly sold over 1.2 million copies worldwide. Sales further increased when Paramount released a film version with the same title in 1921 and this launched Rudolph Valentino into cinema immortality as the greatest lover of the silent screen.
She also wrote a follow-up to 'The Sheik', 'The Sons of the Sheik' (1925) and she wrote six other novels of the 'desert romance' variety. In 2005 these novels were still classed by some publishers as 'erotic fiction'!
In addition she wrote a travelogue 'Camping in the Sahara' (1926) that included photographs by her daughter Cecil.
She died at age 66, on 11 February 1947 in Hazelwood, in the parish of Duffield, Derbyshire.
Edith Maude Henderson was born on 16 August 1880 in the Borough of Hampstead, London, England, UK, the daughter of Katie Thorne, of New Brunswick, Canada, and James Henderson, a shipowner from Liverpool.
As a child she travelled widely with her parents, even visiting Algeria, the setting of her novels. In 1899, she married Percy Winstanley Hull (b. 1869) in London and the couple moved to Derbyshire in the early 1900s. They had a daughter Cecil Winstanley Hull, who also wrote a book entitled 'Six Weeks in Algeria' (1930).
She dabbled at writing fiction in the late 1910s while her husband was away serving in World War I. 'The Sheik', her initial effort, was first published in England in 1919 and quickly became an international blockbuster, placing it among the top ten best sellers for both of the years 1921 and 1922 in the magazine 'Publishers Weekly'.
'The Sheik' quickly sold over 1.2 million copies worldwide. Sales further increased when Paramount released a film version with the same title in 1921 and this launched Rudolph Valentino into cinema immortality as the greatest lover of the silent screen.
She also wrote a follow-up to 'The Sheik', 'The Sons of the Sheik' (1925) and she wrote six other novels of the 'desert romance' variety. In 2005 these novels were still classed by some publishers as 'erotic fiction'!
In addition she wrote a travelogue 'Camping in the Sahara' (1926) that included photographs by her daughter Cecil.
She died at age 66, on 11 February 1947 in Hazelwood, in the parish of Duffield, Derbyshire.
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