![]() Of course, this is easier said than done. He resolves to find his father and enlist his aid in seeking revenge on the evil baron who burned their home. His father, a legendary corsair, is lost at sea, rumored to be dead, but Kerbouchard doesn’t believe it. We join Mathurin Kerbouchard as a boy on the verge of manhood, his mother killed and his home burned by the evil local petty noble. I very much wish that L’Amour had followed it up with the proposed sequel he was planning, but regrettably he died before he managed to get it written. ![]() My memory of it from childhood did not in the least do it justice. I am sure some of it’s impact on my memory has to do with it’s uniqueness among L’Amour’s works, but the fact remains that this is a well-wrought adventure novel with a wealth of historical gems hidden inside. The Walking Drum, however, is set in twelfth-century Europe, from Brittany to Constantinople and beyond. Most of L’Amour’s body of work is set in the Old West, or if not there at least on the American frontier as it existed at the time the story is set. Here you will find all of the adventure, excitement and historicity that has long been associated with the works of Louis L’Amour, but this time with a different setting. ![]() I’ve documented before my long-held fondness for the works of Louis L’Amour, and this particular book is no exception. ![]()
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