by Henry de Monfreid · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782246495413
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«Le Dragon de Cheik Hussen» is the adventure novel by Henry de Monfreid, published by Grasset in paperback (192 pages, in French).
The novel mixes stories and anecdotes with the author's personal memories and reflections. A young shepherd, in reality the sheik's son, was kidnapped and raised in the forest by a female monkey; as an adult, he confronts the dragon terrorizing the country and hopes to win the hand of the sultan's daughter, with whom he is in love.
The paperback edition was published on February 1, 1995. The book belongs to the Lectures et Aventures collection.
For readers of classic adventure novels with exotic settings.
Henry de Monfreid was a French adventurer, a prolific writer, sailor, a smuggler, a shipowner, a hashish trader, and perhaps a spy. Born in Leucate, Aude, France, he was the son of artist painter Georges-Daniel de Monfreid and knew Paul Gauguin as a child.
