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The Sea-Hawk
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099528845
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $45.00

The Sea-Hawk

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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'. 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...
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099528845
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950) was born in Italy to two opera singers, and often joined his parents on their professional tours of Europe. In 1918, he became a British subject and worked for the British Intelligence during World War I. He published his first novel, The Lovers of Yvonne, at the age of 27, and continued to produce numerous historical novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, and some biographies. Scaramouche was first published in 1921, followed by Captain Blood in 1922. Sabatini died in 1950 while vacationing at a Swiss ski resort.
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Praise for The Sea-Hawk

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