Godfrey is a young Englishman visiting Imperial Russia. When he and his friend Alexis are caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, Godfrey finds himself on a journey to a remote prison camp deep in the heart of Siberia. Blessed with an indomitable spirit Godfrey begins to plan an escape across the forbidding and dangerous wilderness. Godfrey faces raging rivers, bears, wolves, and angry natives during his escape. Is there any chance that he will ever escape and find his way back to England? Set in eighteenth-century England and Russia, G.A. Henty's Condemned as a Nihilist includes more than 60 geographical, historical, and explanatory footnotes to aid the modern reader.