The Sea-Hawk
Rafael Sabatini author Ben Kane editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:30th Jun '11
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
A rousing story of pirate adventure, hair raising duels and romance
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BEN KANE
Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman, is blessed with 'youth, wealth, and good digestion'. This is the thrilling, full-blooded adventure of how a man wronged became the scourge of the Mediterranean and the terror of Christians...
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BEN KANE
Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman, is blessed with 'youth, wealth, and good digestion'. He is betrayed by his half-brother and becomes a renegade and Barbary corsair winning the title of Sakr-el-Bahr - hawk of the sea. This is the thrilling, full-blooded adventure of how a man wronged became the scourge of the Mediterranean and the terror of Christians...
Sabatini's stories abound with drama and melodrama, action and excitement and brilliant colour, as well as minute period detail. No writer, not Scott, nor Dumas, nor Stevenson, has brought the past to life more vividly or accurately . . . He is to be learned from by any who seek instruction in the craft of writing or the matter of history. This century has seen no greater expert in the two combined. -- George McDonald Fraser
One wonders if there is another storyteller so adroit at filling his pages with intrigue and counter-intrigue, with danger threaded with romance, with a background of lavish colour, of silks and velvets, of swords and jewels * Daily Telegraph *
A gadzooks romance with a generous measure of blood, revenge, sacrifice, villainy, adventure, and heart-interest * The Nation *
ISBN: 9780099528845
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 23mm
Weight: 266g
384 pages