Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE warriors arose from their place of brief rest and simple refreshment, and courteously aided each other while they carefully replaced and adjusted the harness, from which they had relieved for the time their trusty steeds. Each seemed familiar with an employment, which, at that time, was a part of necessary, and, indeed, of indispensable duty. Each also seemed to possess, as far as the difference betwixt the animal and rational species admitted, the confidence and affection of the horse, which was the constant companion of his travels and his warfare. With the Saracen, this familiar intimacy was a part of his early habits; for, in the tents of the Eastern military tribes, the horse of the soldier ranks next to, and almost equal in importance with, his wife and his family; and, with the European warrior, circumstances, and indeed necessity, rendered his war-horse scarcely less than his brother-in-arms. The steeds, therefore, suffered themselves quietly to be taken from their food and liberty, and neighed and snuffed fondly around their masters, while they were adjusting their accoutrements for farther travel and additional toil. And each warrior, as he prosecuted his own task, or assisted with courtesy his companion, looked with observant curiosity at the equipments of his fellow-traveller, and noted particularly what struck him as peculiar in the fashion in which he arranged his riding accoutrements. Ere they remounted to resume their journey, the Christian knight again moistened his lips, and dipped his hands in the living fountain, and said to his Pagan associate of the journey: " I would I knew the name of this delicious fountain, that I might hold it in my grateful remembrance ; for never did water slake more deliciously a more oppressive thirst than I ha...
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Right up there w/Scott's Ivanhoe!,
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This is a wonderful adventure set in the Holy Land of Crusader fame, a tale of Richard the Lionheart, of his noble knight Sir Kennethof the Leopard (the prince royal of Scotland in disguise) and of the great Saracen ruler Saladin who fought the historical Richard to a stand-still in Palestine and showed his chivalry and nobility in the process. In fact, Scott's tale makes it clear that it is Saladin, not Richard, who is the nobler and wiser chieftain through a series of intrigues which see Saladin playing physician, matchmaker and spy all the while Richard is being gulled by traitors and self-interested allies around him. In fact, the great hearted Richard is moved to condemn to death his greatest knight and supporter, but for the machinations of Saladin and the loyalty of one good dog. This is a fun tale, full of adventure and exotic locales, every bit as strong as Ivanhoe, but, perhaps, just a shade less rich in colorful characters and mayhem. Read it anyway. It's worth it. -- Stuart W. Mirsky <swmirsky@usa.net>The King of Vinland's Saga
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a good study of religions,
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I read this book more than forty years ago and still can see the way men become swayed by religious pressure and how some men see through the politics and remain with clean hands.This and other books cause me to understand how religions fall and others leap to be the next world power.What religion was the father of the muslims before he was a muslim;what religion past did the first pope [not peter] really come from?The TALISMAN is still a good read today.
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Have a copy of the original Waverly novel of the Talisman,
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I found the book wonderfully refreshing. A nice change from the modern versions of the crusades. Also I am curious about the rarity of the particular book I own. Anyone with any info please email me.
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THE burning sun of Syria had not yet attained its highest point in the horizon, when a knight of the Red Cross, who had left his distant Northern home, and joined the host of the Crusaders in Palestine, was pacing slowly along the sandy deserts which lie in the vicinity of the Dead Sea, or, as it is called, the Lake Asphaltites, where the waves of the Jordan pour themselves into an inland sea, from which there is no discharge of waters. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
couchant leopard, unfortunate knight, hark thee, sayst thou, thou knowst, profound repose, royal tent Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Kenneth, King Richard, Grand Master, Lady Edith, Thomas de Vaux, Richard of England, Marquis of Montserrat, Conrade of Montserrat, Lord of Gilsland, Edith Plantagenet, Philip of France, Sir Thomas, Melech Ric, Queen Berengaria, Archduke of Austria, Sir Knight, Holy Land, Earl of Huntingdon, Baron of Gilsland, Holy Sepulchre, Archbishop of Tyre, Lady Calista, Long Allen, Lord King, Thomas of Gilsland New!
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THE burning sun of Syria had not yet attained its highest point in the horizon, when a knight of the Red Cross, who had left his distant Northern home, and joined the host of the Crusaders in Palestine, was pacing slowly along the sandy deserts which lie in the vicinity of the Dead Sea, or, as it is called, the Lake Asphaltites, where the waves of the Jordan pour themselves into an inland sea, from which there is no discharge of waters. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
couchant leopard, unfortunate knight, hark thee, sayst thou, thou knowst, profound repose, royal tent Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Kenneth, King Richard, Grand Master, Lady Edith, Thomas de Vaux, Richard of England, Marquis of Montserrat, Conrade of Montserrat, Lord of Gilsland, Edith Plantagenet, Philip of France, Sir Thomas, Melech Ric, Queen Berengaria, Archduke of Austria, Sir Knight, Holy Land, Earl of Huntingdon, Baron of Gilsland, Holy Sepulchre, Archbishop of Tyre, Lady Calista, Long Allen, Lord King, Thomas of Gilsland New!
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- Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances by George Ellis in Front Matter
- Lalla Rookh by Thomas Moore in Front Matter
- History of Chivalry by Charles Mills in Front Matter
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