Tigers of the Sea [Hardcover]

Robert E Howard (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 212 pages
• Publisher: Donald M. Grant; 1st Edition edition (1974)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000GHJIPA
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,289,102 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

(1906-1936) Robert Erwin Howard was born and rasied in rural Texas, where he lived all his life. The son of a pioneer physician, he began writing professionally at the age of fifteen. Howard killed himself in June 1936 when he learned that his beloved mother had fallen into a coma.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Thulas Doom's real nemesis, July 27, 2000

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Lloyd A. Conway (Detroit) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tigers Of The Sea (Paperback)

Those who have seen the movie "Conan the Barbarian" will no doubt remember Jemes Earl Jones' excellent portrayal of the snake-loving bad guy, Thulsa Doom, Priest of Set. What they may not know is that he originally was the nemesis of another Robert E. Howard hero, Cormac Mac Art, the protagonist of the four stories in this book. Mac Art's exploits are chronicled in seven volumes, of which this is the fifth, and last by Howard's hand. Mac Art is an Irish expatriate, pirate, and warrior par excellence living at the time of the fall of the Roman Empire in the West. His companion, Wulfhere Hausklifer, is a Danish Viking, and it is with him that Cormac sails, in search of adventure. His love interest, the Irish princess Samire, also makes her appearance in one of the stories. Confronting supernatural opponents like the Druid Zogar Sag, they manage to prove that courage (and Conan-like martial ability) conquors all. The final confrontation with Thulsa Doom has to wait for the final book, "Sign of the Moonbow," however. If you like historical sword-and-sorcery tales, this is one of the best. -Lloyd A. Conway