The Sea-Hawk: Rafael Sabatini's Bestseller & Famous Book
Rafael Sabatini
Nov 2010 · Namaskar Books
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328
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The Sea Hawk is an historical adventure set in the reign of Elizabeth I. The blue waters of the Mediterranean are harried and pillaged by the Barbara corsairs led by Sakr-el-Bahr, The Sea Hawk, whose merciless scimitar strikes terror into the heart of every voyager and whose ruthlessness has sent thousands to a lingering death at the oars of Moorish galleys. Sir Oliver, a Cornish sea faring gentleman and commander of one of her majesty's ships sets out on an odyssey of piracy, passion and plunder from the shores of England to the bloody coast of Arabia. Tressillian has been betrayed by a jealous half-brother. After being forced to serve as a slave on a Spanish galley, Sir Oliver is liberated by Barbary pirates. He is given the name Sakr-el-Bahr, which means the Hawk of the Sea. He swears vengeance on his brother.
About the author
Rafael Sabatini was born April 29, 1875 in Jesi, Italy. At a young age, Rafael was exposed to many languages, and attending school in Portugal and, as a teenager, in Switzerland. By the time he was seventeen, when he went to England to live permanently, he could speak five languages. He quickly added English and chose to write in his adopted language, because, he said, "all the best stories are written in English." After a brief stint in the business world, Sabatini went to work as a writer. He wrote short stories in the 1890s, and his first novel came out in 1902. It took Sabatini almost a quarter of century before he attained success with Scaramouche in 1921. It became an international best-seller. Captain Blood followed in 1922 and was equally as successful. Sabatini was a prolific writer; he produced a new book approximately every year. While he would never achieve the success of Scaramouche and Captain Blood, Sabatini still maintained a great deal of popularity with the reading public through the decades that followed. By the 1940s, illness forced the writer to slow his prolific method of composition. However, he did write several additional works even during that time. His body of work consists of 31 novels, 8 short story colections and 6 books of poetry. He died February 13, 1950 in Switzerland. He is buried at Adelboden, Switzerland.
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