Edison Marshall

Tale of Arthur, passionate warrior-King of England - and the lovely women in his life.

The novel starts in 1796 with Homer Whitman, American sailor, sailing with his ship to escape a failed romance. The ship was attacked by the Barbary pirates and Homor was given a debt to pay with took eighteen years, most in Africa. Here he found the gold needed to complete his task. Maine, Malta, Tripoli, the tents of the Bedouin, a tomb in Sudan, Capetown, the palaces and gaming rooms of London - and home!

Marco Polo hated his father with a bitterness that was unquenchable. For Niccolo had branded him falsely as another man's son. Marco knew that the only way he could get retribution was to ride a star more triumphant than his father's. So with money gained by selling the woman he loved into slavery, he bought his way into his father's caravan - boun d for Cathay and the court of Kublai Khan, the most powerful monarch in history. But through every weary mile of the four-year trek across a continent, he longed for the love he had betrayed, and dreamed of the moment he might revenge himself on his father. And he knew he would have both love and vengeance -- even if he had to kill to get them!

colorful imprint of mountain and forest on cover cover green cloth boards with turquoise and pinkish brown snow covered mountains

The hero leads an old man and his daughter across the wilderness after their cabin is been burned down. As a story that mingles adventure, nature study and romance, this is undeniably of the front rank. It is clean, fine, raw, boldly primitive; and has a wonderfully haunting quality in the repeated wolf-note.

A novel of gold-rush Alaska with adventuress Fannie Ford and bright-haired Sophia Hill at its whirling center.

Novel of vengeance in the Indian border country.