by Percival Christopher Wren · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853262111
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«Beau Geste» is the adventure novel by Percival Christopher Wren, published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in paperback (341 pages, in English).
Three English brothers enlist in the French Foreign Legion and serve in North Africa, where they face a brutal sergeant and desert tribes. The mystery of a stolen jewel runs through the story and ultimately ties their fate to that of a Legion garrison.
First installment of the «Beau Geste» series by P. C. Wren, originally published in 1924. Complete and unabridged edition from the Wordsworth Classics collection.
For readers of classic adventure and mystery novels, with a military setting in North Africa.
Percival Christopher Wren was an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. This was one of 33 novels and short story collections that he wrote, mostly dealing with colonial soldiering in Africa.
