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Cargando... Wolf of the Steppes: The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume 1por Harold Lamb
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I downloaded this via the Kindle store after reading a reference to the adventure works of Harold Lamb in a book review. These stories are excellent!. Lamb writes well, has a fast pace, and his scholarship is such that the details are true and the stories touch on verified events. Khlit the Cossack, he of the Curved Saber, is old when he leaves the Cossack band and starts his adventures on the Steppes. He becomes the Kha Khan of a group of Mongols, defeats the Chinese in some battles but drifts away as the warring clans become easier prey for the organized Chinese. As the stories end he is involved in Mogul India. Robert E. Howard, the author of the Conan series, borrowed from Lamb, and has the same pace of plotting, and the character of the hero Khlit is very similar to that of the older Conan. Oh to be able to master the situations of life as simply as these characters! ( ) When critics talk about writers who influenced Robert E. Howard, along with predictable favorites such as H.P. Lovecraft, Jack London, and Rudyard Kipling, one name always comes up: Harold Lamb. http://fireandsword.blogspot.com/2007/03/wolf-of-steppes-by-harold-lamb-when.htm... sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesCossack Adventures (Volume 1) ContieneAlamut por Harold Lamb
Master of driving pace, exotic setting, and complex plotting, Harold Lamb was one of Robert E. Howard's favorite writers. Here at last is every pulse-pounding, action-packed story of Lamb's greatest hero, the wolf of the steppes, Khlit the Cossack. Journey now with the unsung grandfather of sword and sorcery in search of ancient tombs, gleaming treasure, and thrilling landscapes. Match wits with deadly swordsmen, scheming priests, and evil cults. Rescue lovely damsels, ride with bold comrades, and hazard everything on your brains and skill and a little luck. Wolf of the Steppes is the first of a four-volume set that collects, for the first time, the complete Cossack stories of Harold Lamb and presents them in order: every adventure of Khlit the Cossack and those of his friends, allies, and fellow Cossacks, many of which have never before appeared between book covers. Compiled and edited by the Harold Lamb scholar Howard Andrew Jones, each volume features never-before reprinted essays Lamb wrote about his stories, informative introductions by popular authors, and a wealth of rare, exciting, swashbuckling fiction. In this first volume, Khlit infiltrates a hidden fortress of assassins, tracks down the tomb of Genghis Khan, flees the vengeance of a dead emperor, leads the Mongol horde against impossible odds, accompanies the stunning Mogul queen safely through the land of her enemies, and much more. This is the stuff of grand adventure, from the pen of an American Dumas. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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