The Siege of Malta

An Historical Novel

Omschrijving

The island of Malta is key to the control of the central Mediterranean Sea. For five months in 1561 a Turkish force attacked Malta--and was defied, in a great epic of endurance, by the Knights of St. John. Sir Walter Scott visited the island a year before his death, and gathered material to write a novel about it, dying before it was complete. Now S. Fowler Wright has finished Scott's last great historical romance. This is a story of high courage and deep faith. At its centre stands the old Grand Master of the Order, La Vallette (after whom Valetta was named), grim and unshakeable. But it is also a story of love undaunted amid fearful perils; of a girl who, rather than be separated from the man she loves, learns to wield a sword, and, escaping by a hairsbreadth from the clutches of the infidel, finally wins even the Grand Master's grudging admiration. Here is a novel to stir the blood and stimulate the imagination.
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Schrijver
Scott, Sir Walter, Wright, S Fowler
Titel
The Siege of Malta
Uitgever
Borgo Press
Jaar
2025
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
842
Gewicht
1211 gr
EAN
9781434435965
Afmetingen
229 x 152 x 47 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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