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Rafael Sabatini Dustjacket Gallery |
| The Sword of Islam |
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Illustrator: John Alan Maxwell (1904-1984)
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The Sword of Islam |
| A long line of blockading galleys rides at anchor, barring the sea approaches for Genoa the Superb, Genoa of the sixteenth century. That is the squadron of the magnificent Lord Andrea Doria, the Lion of the Seas, who has come to free Genoa from the oppression of a foreign tyrant. In command of the squadron is Prospero Adorno, a soldier and a poet, a man of dreams and a man of action, who is to face the insolent and deadly Dragut-Reis, the Moslem terror of the island seas. Furious sea battles, love and hatred, treachery and loyalty, battles of wit and of pistols, Genoa scourged by a plague and sunk into debauchery, all the splendor and insidious fascination of a romantic age which has passed forever are brought to life in a story that will stand with "Captain Blood" and "The Sea Hawk" as one of Sabatini's great novels of the sea. |
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