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Emilio Salgari
Who created the most famous Southeast Asian hero during the heyday of imperialism and colonialism? Who inaugurated with The Mysteries of the Black Jungle over a century long link uniting the Italian imaginary to the Indian one? Who envisioned the most celebrated interracial love stories of world literature, those between Sandokan, leader of the Tigers of Mompracem, and Marianna, the Pearl of Labuan, between Tremal-Naik, the Bengali snake catcher, and Ada, the Virgin of Kali’s temple at the time of the British Raj? Who defined the Caribbean as a symbolic trope of plunder and rebellion through the melancholic viewpoint of the Black Corsair and the forsaken love for his enemy’s daughter? Wh...
Sandokán, El Rey del Mar
La novela 'Sandokán, El Rey del Mar' escrita por Emilio Salgari es una obra emocionante que se sitúa en el contexto de la literatura de aventuras del siglo XIX. La historia sigue las hazañas del temerario pirata Sandokán en su lucha contra el colonialismo europeo en el sudeste asiático, mezclando acción, romance y exotismo oriental. Salgari utiliza un estilo narrativo detallado y descriptivo que sumerge al lector en un mundo lleno de peligros y emociones. Su enfoque en la justicia y la lucha por la libertad resuena a través de las páginas de esta apasionante historia. Emilio Salgari, un prolífico escritor italiano del siglo XIX, se inspiró en sus propias experiencias como marinero ...
The Filter of the Caliphs
Synopsis: Continuation and end of The Panthers of Algiers. At the beginning of the 17th century, at the height of the Ottoman Empire, the waters of the Mediterranean Sea were crossed by hundreds of merchant ships from Europe, who had to face the stalking of Muslim pirates, whose modus vivendi was the looting of ships and the sale of their prisoners as slaves. In this historical context, of brave men, constant dangers and bloody battles on the high seas, Emilio Salgari places these stories, which narrate the exciting and daring adventure the Baron of Santelmo undertakes when he decides to enter Algiers to free his fiancée from a fearsome corsair who has it in his power. About the Author: Ita...
The Tigers of Malaysia
Synopsis: It was conceived as an amazing journey through time and space to a land where it was possible to find fights, huge, tigers or diamonds the size of a walnut. Sandokan is the owner and lord of the island of Mompracem. Driven by revenge against the English who took away his family and kingdom, he set out to travel the coasts of Malaysia with his men, cruelly exercising piracy against the British enemy. For this reason, it is known by the nickname of El Tigre de Malaysia. One night when the island is shaken by a strong hurricane, Sandokan receives a visit from Yánez, his most loyal and faithful friend, who informs him about Lady Mariana, niece of the governor of the English colony of ...
The Last Filibusters
The faithful Mendoza, Buttafuoco, and the boisterous Don Barrejo reunite to save Neala, the half-sister of Enrico of Ventimiglia, the Italian gentleman disguised as a corsair who found her and brought her back to Europe in The Son of The Red Corsair. Neala has returned to the New World to be made Queen of Darien and take possession of the riches she inherited after the death of her grandfather, the Darien's Gran Cacique. But the Marquis of Montelimar, who had kept her prisoner pretending to be her tutor with the aim of getting his hands on the inheritance, kidnaps her soon after she arrives. Mendoza, Buttafuoco, and Barrejo will stop at nothing and join forces with the last Pirates of the Caribbean to rescue her in this action filled, and often humorous, adventure.
Sandokan
The Tiger Roars again! Sandokan and Yanez are back, righting injustices and fighting old foes. Tremal-Naik's misfortunes have continued. Wrongfully imprisoned, the great hunter has been banished from India and sentenced to life in a penal colony. Knowing his master is innocent, Kammamuri dashes off to the rescue, planning to free the good hunter at the first opportunity. When the ever-loyal servant is captured by the Tigers of Mompracem, he manages to enlist their services. But in order to succeed, Sandokan and Yanez must lead their men against the forces of James Brooke, 'The Exterminator', the dreaded White Rajah of Sarawak.
The Last Filibusters (Translated)
- This is the Second Edition of the of "The Last Filibusters" in English. "The Last Filibusters" is the only English translation of the Italian "Gli ultimi filibustieri" by Emilio Salgari. "The Last Filibusters" is the continuation and conclusions of the adventures of the band of characters introduced in "The Son of the Red Corsair."Emilio Salgari is an Italian writer of adventure and science fiction stories for readers of all ages young at heart. His books are regarded as classics and are still in print many years after their initial publication. They have been translated in several languages and, besides Italy, they are especially popular in the Spanish speaking world. A prolific writer, S...
Los Pescadores de Trépang
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Captain Tempesta
A warrior in disguise. A lover to be rescued. A city under siege.Cyprus, 1571. An island at war. The powerful Ottoman army has taken every city save one, Famagusta, a Venetian port and stronghold. Besieged by a force of 80,000 men, they city has valiantly fought back with its small garrison of warriors and mercenaries. The greatest among them is Captain Tempesta, a young noble unmatched in bravery and swordsmanship. Few, however, know the captain's secret... that she has donned armour and passed herself off as a man in order to search for her beloved who has been imprisoned by the Turks. Will she triumph? The odds are overwhelmingly against her. The Turks are preparing to storm the city and slay all those within it, and still there has been no word of her beloved's whereabouts... Selected by Julia Eccleshare as one of the 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up."
The Wonders Of 2000
Synopsis: It is almost impossible not to conceive of the future as an extended projection of the present. That is true for Verne, but even more so for Emilio Salgari, for whom the year 2000 signified the point of convergence of all possible futures, the time when they would crystallize into a kind of inevitable destiny. Seen today, that future is presented as a range of possibilities that year after year is narrowing more and more, until it is reduced to what it definitely is. The Wonders of 2000 was published for the first time in 1907, but it can be presumed that it was written in 1903, since it is toasted with champagne "for our resurrection in 2003". Two men, willing to know the future, ...
