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In Desert and Wilderness is a novel for children by Polish author and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz. It tells the story of two children, Staś Tarkowski and Nel Rawlison, and their adventures as they cross the African desert and jungle. During the journey they face lions, leopards and malaria, make friends with desert tribespeople and an elephant, and learn about some harsh realities of life. An unusual "coming of age" story! - Summary by Beth Thomas

Through the Desert, also translated as In Desert and Wilderness, is a novel set in nineteenth-century Egypt about two children, one Polish and one English, who are kidnapped. It was written by the Nobel-prize-winning Henryk Sienkiewicz and was his only foray into the genre of young-adult fiction. - Summary by David Granville Young