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Rafael Sabatini Dustjacket Gallery |
| The Sea Hawk |
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 Illustrator: Harold Mathews Brett (1880-1955) |
 PhotoPlay Edition: 1924 First National Film |
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The Sea Hawk US Edition - J.P. Lippincott - [1915]; Houghton-Mifflin - [1923] |
| Sir Oliver Tressilian, Cornish gentleman, became a follower of Mahmud, and a Barbary corsair, winning for himself the title of Sakr-el-Bahr -- Hawk of the Sea. He adopts the picturesque Barbary costume and becomes a favorite of the Basha. Finally on a captured Spanish ship he invades the coast of England and carries away the girl whose love for him has been poisoned by falsehood and whose unforgiving hate had kept him from returning to his home. To save her from the harem of the Basha, he defies his commander, and determines on escape. Undoubtedly, this is one of the most dramatic moments in any of Mr. Sabatini's books, and the story of their subsequent adventures makes a superb and thrilling epic of romance. "The Sea Hawk" is a book of fierce bright color and amazing adventure through which stalks one of the truly great and masterful figures of romance. |
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