Emilio Salgari
Geboren am 21. August 1862 in Verona; gestorben am 25. April 1911 in Turin.
Sein Vater ist Tuchhändler. Die Oberschule kann er wegen schlechter Noten nicht zu Ende bringen. Von 1878 bis 1881 studierte er am Königlich...
Pimpernel and Rosemary is a novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, originally published in 1924. It is set after the First World War and features Peter Blakeney, a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Percy Blakeney). The action is mainly set among the...
After decades at seas, pirate legend Jose' Gasparilla is prepared to retire. As he and his crew split their treasure, the promise of one final prize lures the ship back into action. Little do they know that the purported riches are nothing but a...
Jamaica in 1665 is a rough outpost of the English crown, a minor colony holding out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, Jamaica′s capital, a cut-throat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses, is devoid of...
Nun hat auch Tscham, der Radscha von Bihar, die brutale Macht der Ostindischen Handelskompanie erfahren müssen. Gegen alles Recht schmachtet er im Kerker des Generalgouverneurs. Wieder greifen der Pfeifer und seine Freunde unerschrocken ein,...
Few cities in this world have known the glory of the West Indies' fabled Port Royal, and fewer still have faded so deep into oblivion. In the seventeenth century the glittering, wicked Jamaican port was the "jewel of the Caribbean," the first city...
Half-brothers and blood enemies Manfred de la Rey and Shasa Courtney, the sons of Centaine de Thiry-Courtney, are irrevocably caught up in an age-old and savage war to seize the sword of power in their land. The Power of the Sword follows them...
Nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd travels from Scotland to South Africa to work as a storekeeper. On the voyage he encounters again John Laputa, the celebrated Zulu minister, of whom he has strange memories.
In his remote store David finds...