Emilio Salgari

I Pirati della Malesia Emilio Salgari

With The Pirates of Malaysia, Emilio Salgari merges the events narrated in two previous novels: I Misteri della Jungla Nera (The Mysteries of the Black Jungle) and Le Tigri di Mompracem (The Tigers of Mompracem), and brings together Kammamuri and Tremal-Naik with Sandokan and Yanez. Narrating poisons that cause sleep or apparent death, the courage of Sandokan and his Tigers and the fight against the White Rajah James Brooke, Salgari draws a fresco, terrifying and fascinating at the same time, of an Indonesia with a luxuriant nature and of British colonizers, headhunters, and pirates; an ensemble that is still recognizable and compelling today, more than 100 years after the novel's first release