A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes Contributor(s): Henty, G. a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1644392607 ISBN-13: 9781644392607 Publisher: Indoeuropeanpublishing.com OUR PRICE: $31.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | War & Military - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.23 lbs) 274 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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Publisher Description: Young Gervaise Tresham leaves England and the turmoil of the Wars of the Roses to become a Knight of St. John. Starting as a page of the Grand Master, Gervaise quickly attains knighthood and defends Europe and Christendom against the anarchy of piracy in the Mediterranean at that time and the expansion of the Turkish empire. Sir Tresham is there to defend the fortress at Rhodes during the first siege of that city by Soleiman.
Henty once related in an interview how his storytelling skills grew out of tales told after dinner to his children. He wrote his first children's book, Out on the Pampas in 1868, naming the book's main characters after his children. The book was published by Griffith and Farran in November 1870 with a title page date of 1871. While most of the 122 books he wrote were for children, he also wrote adult novels, non-fiction such as The March to Magdala and Those Other Animals, short stories for the likes of The Boy's Own Paper and edited the Union Jack, a weekly boy's magazine. Henty usually researched his novels by ordering several books on the subject he was writing on from libraries, and consulting them before beginning writing. Some of his books were written about events (such as the Crimean War) that he witnessed himself; hence, these books are written with greater detail as Henty drew upon his first-hand experiences of people, places, and events. On 16 November 1902, Henty died aboard his yacht in Weymouth Harbour, Dorset, leaving unfinished his last novel, By Conduct and Courage, which was completed by his son Captain C.G. Henty. Henty is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London. (wikipedia.org) |