Barbara Toy followed the Mediterranean coastline of North Africa, travelling through what was then French Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, to Cyprus, then down through Lebanon, Syria and then through Jordan to Iraq. While in Iraq she visited several archaeological sites, including in May 1951 Sir Max Mallowan's excavations at Nimrud where his wife Agatha Christie was helping with processing the finds. The work on the site had just finished, and the finds for that season included the stele of King Assur-nasir-pal II. Her journey home is not described in the book, although in her second book "A Fool in the
The Crime of the Congo early history of the Congo Free State Sir Arthur quotes the testimony of many unimpeachable witnesses regarding the brutalities of the 'rubber system' and the coldblooded mutilation and massacre of natives during the past fifteen years". Many academics who have analysed Conan Doyle's life have noted his activism, including his authorship of "The Crime of the Congo". In 2009, Cambridge Scholars Publishing released a reprint of the work, in "Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Crime of the Congo The Crime of the Congo is a 1909 book by British writer and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, about