Cheers to good old Salgari...
Folks, you dont need to know, but today is the 100th anniversary of Emilio Salgari's death, great adventure writer of the late 19th Century. He was the creator of ruthless Sandokan, a Malasian pirate/prince who battled against British Imperialism and the lesser known "Black Corsair" another pirate who sought to avenge his familiy in late 17th Century Caribbean...I was raised with Sandokan cool novels as a kid, and remember them quite fondly.
Salgari was a "larger than life" character, very well known in Italy for more than seventy novels, but squeezed to the death (almost literally) by his evil employers, that forced him to write novels for very little money... He never achieved greatness of fame like contemporary Jules Verne, but his attachment to fantasy and exotic adventure made him even forge whole passages of his "Autobiography" in which he claims he really met some of his fictional creatures, like Tremal-Naik (one of Sandokan's croonies in his novels). So, I raise a cool vodka glass to Mr. Salgari, wherever he mighjt be...
Folks, you dont need to know, but today is the 100th anniversary of Emilio Salgari's death, great adventure writer of the late 19th Century. He was the creator of ruthless Sandokan, a Malasian pirate/prince who battled against British Imperialism and the lesser known "Black Corsair" another pirate who sought to avenge his familiy in late 17th Century Caribbean...I was raised with Sandokan cool novels as a kid, and remember them quite fondly.
Salgari was a "larger than life" character, very well known in Italy for more than seventy novels, but squeezed to the death (almost literally) by his evil employers, that forced him to write novels for very little money... He never achieved greatness of fame like contemporary Jules Verne, but his attachment to fantasy and exotic adventure made him even forge whole passages of his "Autobiography" in which he claims he really met some of his fictional creatures, like Tremal-Naik (one of Sandokan's croonies in his novels). So, I raise a cool vodka glass to Mr. Salgari, wherever he mighjt be... 