The Sea Hawk - Couverture souple

Sabatini, Rafael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1931839530 ISBN 13 : 9781931839532

Editeur : Ross & Perry, 2003

Synopsis

Sir Oliver Tressilian sat at his ease in the lofty dining-room of the handsome house of Penarrow, which he owed to the enterprise of his father of lamented and lamentable memory and to the skill and invention of an Italian engineer named Bagnolo who had come to England half a century ago as one of the assistants of the famous Torrigiani.This house of such a startlingly singular and Italianate grace for so remote a corner of Cornwall deserves, together with the story of its construction, a word in passing.The Italian Bagnolo who combined with his salient artistic talents a quarrelsome, volcanic humour had the mischance to kill a man in a brawl in a Southwark tavern. As a result he fled the town, nor paused in his headlong flight from the consequences of that murderous deed until he had all but reached the very ends of England. Under what circumstances he became acquainted with Tressilian the elder I do not know. But certain it is that the meeting was a very timely one for both of them. To the fugitive, Ralph Tressilian-who appears to have been inveterately partial to the company of rascals of all denominations- afforded shelter; and Bagnolo repaid the service by offering to rebuild the decaying half-timbered house of Penarrow.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Set against the backdrop of the Spanish invasion of England during the reign of Elizabeth I, The Sea Hawk is a classic of the pirate genre. Sir Oliver Tressilian is betrayed by a jealous half-brother and forced to serve as a slave on a galley. He is liberated when the ship is hijacked by Barbary pirates. Sir Oliver joins the pirates, gaining the name "Sakr-el-Bahr" (the hawk of the sea), and swears vengeance against his brother. The book was the basis for The Sea Hawk, the popular 1940 Errol Flynn swashbuckler.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ross & Perry
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1931839530
• ISBN 13: 9781931839532
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 396
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible