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First Edition 1983 Arbor House New York ISBN 0877954437 Hardback in dust jacket Cover illustration by Paul Bacon 560 pages Price: $16.50 Notes The title character also appears in To the Land of the Living (Gollancz, 1989). The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 1984 Bantam Books paperback edition, ISBN 0553243624. Cover illustration by Sanjulian.
Publisher's Blurb – Lower Cover
In the late 16th century, young British seaman-adventurer Andrew Battell is abducted by Portuguese pirates while seeking treasure off the coast of Brazil. Shipped in chains to the steamy slave-trading colony of Angola, he is seduced and betrayed by a passionate woman, tortured in Angola's foulest dungeons, then finally condemned to death. Escaping into the African interior, Battell begins the most frightening adventure of his life – a nightmare journey into a strange and exotic world, where, to survive, he rises to become trusted blood brother to the barbaric and mysterious warrior-king called the Lord of Darkness.
"VIVID AND ABSORBING . . . THE WRITER EXPERTLY PORTRAYS THIS PERIOD AND ITS PEOPLE." |
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