The Desert Healer

<p><I>The Desert Healer</I> (1923) is a romance novel by English author E.M. Hull. Hull's novel <I>The Sheikh</I> (1919) sold millions of copies following the release of a 1921 film of the same name. Part of a tradition of Orientalist fiction <I>The Desert Healer</I> alongside <I>The Sheik</I> and its sequel <I>The Sons of the Sheik</I> (1925) have proven both controversial and popular and now serve as a reminder of the ways in which British subjects imagined themselves in relation to the colonial world.<p>Abandoned by his wife heartbroken at the loss of his child Carew has taken to the desert to work as a mercenary healer and mediator between local authority figures. Content to live as a shadow of his former self Carew forsakes Western civilization for the limitlessness and anonymity of the Algerian desert. Journeying on horseback one day he hears the screams of a woman in the midst of being kidnapped and reluctantly saves her life. Disheveled and barely conscious Marny Gerardine an Englishwoman asks for her savior's name. Pretending to be an Arab Carew maintains his disguise and after a night spent resting in his shelter brings the woman home to Algiers. There she fears the return of her abusive husband Clyde who will find a way-as always-to blame her for the attack. Recalling the kindness of her gentle rescuer she wonders if he is thinking of her if they will see one another once more. <I>The Desert Healer</I> is romance novel by a master of English popular fiction.<p>Since our inception in 2020 Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. <p>With thousands of titles in our collection we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.</p>