Download Riders Of The Steppes: The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume Three Generated By Harold Lamb Released As Hardcover

epic adventure on the steppes of Asia circaAD, The focus this time moves from Khlit who was already old when he first rode onto the page to Ayub, who's a really big guy, and Khlit's grandson Kirdy, but Khlit himself does make an appearance in some of the stories.


As always, Lamb excels not just at writing adventure, but at imbuing his fiction with a remarkable sense of place through use of wellchosen detail.


The highlight of the book is probably "The White Falcon", which follows a group ofCossacks sent from Moscow down south across the desert to sack a treasurecity it packs a staggering amount of action into just overpages.
A master of driving pace, exotic setting, and complex plotting, Harold Lamb was one of Robert E.
Howard's favorite writers. Here at last is every pulsepounding, actionpacked story of Lamb's greatest hero, Khlit the Cossack, the “wolf of the steppes.
” Journey with the unsung grandfather of sword and sorcery in search of ancient tombs, gleaming treasure, and thrilling landscapes.
  Match wits with deadly swordsmen, scheming priests, and evil cults, Rescue lovely damsels, ride with bold comrades, and hazard everything on your

brains, skill, and a little luck.


This fourvolume set collects for the first time the complete Cossack stories of Harold Lamb: every adventure of Khlit the Cossack and those of his friends, allies, and fellow Cossacks, many of which have never appeared between book covers.
Compiled and edited by the Harold Lamb scholar Howard Andrew Jones, each volume features essays Lamb wrote about his stories, an informative introduction by a popular author, and a wealth of rare, exciting, swashbuckling fiction.


In this third volume, the wily old Cossack Khlit may have aged but he's lost none of his guile.
He shepherds his dashing grandson Kirdy into one adventure after another, finally uniting with his allies Ayub and Demid in the climactic story White Falconout of print since thes.
Here too are the exploits of Ayub and Demid, risking all to safeguard the perilous Russian border from marauding Turks, Tatars, and even bloodthirsty Russian nobles.
All the old thrill of swashbuckling and rip roaring tales from the age of pulp fiction.
Four volumes by Lamb set in the Cossack lands of the southern Russian Steppes, Not all in order but you take what you can get from interlibrary loan when you get them.
Other three came next day but was already into this volume of the collected tales, All dated and not politically correct but fun to re read after many years now in a full set where you fill in all the gaps from only catching a few years ago.
Harold Albert Lamb was an American historian, screenwriter, short story writer, and novelist, Born in Alpine, New Jersey, he attended Columbia University, where his interest in the peoples and history of Asia began.
Lamb built a career with his writing from an early age, He got his start in the pulp magazines, quickly moving to the prestigious Adventure magazine, his primary fiction outlet for nineteen years.
Inhe wrote a biography of Genghis Khan, and following on its success turned and to the writing of non fiction, penning numerous biographies and popular history books until his death in.
The success of Lambs two volume history of the Crusades led to his discovery by Cecil B.
DeMille, who employed Lamb as a technical Harold Albert Lamb was an American historian, screenwriter, short story writer, and novelist.
Born in Alpine, New Jersey, he attended Columbia University, where his interest in the peoples and history of Asia began.
Lamb built a career with his writing from an early age, He got his start in the pulp magazines, quickly moving to the prestigious Adventure magazine, his primary fiction outlet for nineteen years.
Inhe wrote a biography of Genghis Khan, and following on its success turned and to the writing of non fiction, penning numerous biographies and popular history books until his death in.
The success of Lamb's two volume history of the Crusades led to his discovery by Cecil B.
DeMille, who employed Lamb as a technical advisor on a related movie, The Crusades, and used him as a screenwriter on many other DeMille movies thereafter.
Lamb spoke French, Latin, Persian, and Arabic, and, by his own account, a smattering of Manchu Tartar.
From Wikipedia sitelink.