The Sea Hawk
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781438503271 (143850327X)
Publisher: Book Jungle
Pages no: 328
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/
18 years ago
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