The Talisman
Series: Macmillan's English classics
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1904
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 510
Subjects: Crusades -- Third, 1189-1192 -- Fiction
Other titles: Scott's Talisman
First sentence: The burning sun of Syria had not yet attained its highest point in the horizon, when a knight of the Red Cross, who had left his distant Northern home, and joined the host of the Crusaders in Palestine, was pacing slowly along the sandy deserts which lie in the vicinity of the Dead Sea, or, as it is called, the Lake Asphaltites, where the waves of the Jordan pour themselves into an inland sea, from which there is no discharge of waters.
Notes: With introduction and notes.
Table of contents: title: Editor's Introduction
pagenum: vii; title: Author's Introduction
pagenum: xiii; title: Appendix to Author's Introduction
pagenum: xxi; title: Text
pagenum: 1; title: Author's Notes
pagenum: 459; title: Editor's Notes
pagenum: 463; title: Mr. Andrew Lang's Notes
pagenum: 508; title: Index
pagenum: 509