About this title: Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman who helped defeat the Spanish Armada, is betrayed by his half-brother, throwing him into circumstances where he becomes a barbary pirate and a follower of Islam.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Date Published: 1969
Description: Fair. Fair hardcover. No DJ. Previous owner's name/writing on end paper and inside front cover, pages are otherwise clean and unmarked though slightly tanned. Couple pages are loose but still present. Covers show edge wear with some rubbing/soiling.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Free Delivery Confirmation! Ships same or next business day! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Popular Library, New York
Description: Good- No Jacket as Issued. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 315 pp. Wraps are clean and tight. Small chips occur at spinal edges. Lamination on wraps has begun to peel at edges. Previous owner's name is written on inside front wrap. Text is clean and tight with heavily age-toned pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Gateway Movie Classics
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780895263780ISBN:0895263785
Description: Good. Book is a bit wavy, pages are clean and bright. Solid and intact but shows some handling wear and tear. No marks on pages but may have marker line (remainder mark) along edge. read more
Description: Good. B000OVC57Q Exterior is great. Binding is beginning to loosen a little. Pages are tanned. Great service. Fast shipping. Saving trees 1 page at a time! read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 8/12/1976
ISBN-13:9780345248190ISBN:0345248198
Description: Good. 0345248198 "Good Condition Paperback-Clean pages: NO marks, writing or stickers inside or out! From a pet-FREE, Smoke-FREE warehouse. Maybe a hint of edge wear from shelving. We ship to APO & FPO with pride! . And...Thank you! " read more
Description: NY: Popular Library, no date. Issued as Popular Library book #91. Near very good. Front Hinge sprung. Mass market paperback. Softcover. read more
Edition: First Ballantine Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York
Date Published: 1976
Description: Good+ No Jacket as Issued. Good copy, slight spinal creasing from reading, slight creases on cover. Some yellowing from aging. USPS Delivery Confirmation included. read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Date Published: 1923
Description: Illustrated by Color frontis. Good/No Jacket. 8vo-over 7 3/4"-9 3/4" Tall Used Good in cloth (cloth rubbed, and faded, wrinkling to spine cloth, hinges weak, browning to edges) 8vo 366pp. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Ex-Libris. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Turquoise cloth boards are scuffed and scraped with rubbed edges, dampstained on spine. Pages are lightly tanning, text has no markings, binding is sound. Prior owner name boldly on fep. read more
"This book hooks you harder than a tranny prostitute in LA is hooked on meth.
When starting, I was a bit concerned that "The Sea-Hawk" wouldn't be able to live up to it's predecessor, "Captain Blood," and it first, it seemed like my fears would be realized. I don't wish to spoil the surprise, so instead: There is an amazing series of events, and suddenly, the book is transformed into a gentlemanly epic of torture, suffering, law, murder, women, and corsairs. Captain Blood for Arabia, one might think, but this is hardly the case. "The Sea-Hawk" is epic in its own sense, and should be read without a consideration for any of Sabitini's other works. It suffers the rare boring moment, especially considering the odd kind-of-narrated voice Sabitini chose to use, which still leaves me befuddled. Besides that, "The Sea-Hawk" is sure to please many a reader, and strike a chord in the corsair in all of them."
"The right book to pick this time, to quest my thirst on pirate story.
Sir Oliver Tressilian, an English gentleman, who later betrayed by his step brother. His journey brought him to the world of Muslim pirates and warriors which later made him converted to the 'true believers' and later known as Sakr-El-Bahr or the 'Sea Hawk'. As Oliver Tressilian or as Sakr-El-Bahr, he surely was a good man but always captured in bad situation and surrounded by jealous people.
Sabatini amazed me on how he described the life and attitude of the Muslim warriors, which reminded me of the chivalrous behavior of Sultan Saladdin of the third Crusade war."
"It's somewhat better than Captain Blood but still unoriginal. There is virtually nothing in the plot that is not extracted from either the Count of Monte Cristo or Ben Hur.
Also, the protagonist is a Barbary corsair. Tales of adventure are supposed to follow a protagonist the reader can sympathize with, not somebody from one of the most evil groups of men in history."
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