The Sea-Hawk
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099528845 (0099528843)
Publish date: June 30th 2011
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Pages no: 364
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Pirates,
Action,
Swashbuckling
The Sea Hawk first captured my imagination when I was a teenager, and now, years & countless other books later, it remains a cherished favorite. My copy is old & musty (printed 1924), the pages yellowed & fragile, but it's mine and I love it with crazy fierceness.
I found this book to be rather engaging. Lots of betrayal and misunderstanding, lots of skulduggery, lots of racist stereotypes about Muslims and Arabs, lots of sexism, and so forth, but then it was written in 1915. If you have to choose between this and "The Scarlet Pimpernel", choose this one. Not...
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3294
My review:http://abouttocharge.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/sakr-el-bahr-the-hawk-of-the-sea-the-scourge-of-the-mediterranean-and-the-terror-of-christian-spain/
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