The Walking Drum
by Louis L'Amour
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Author: Louis L'AmourEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1985-05-01
ISBN: 0553280406
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: "YOL BOLSUN! May there be a road!"
Summary: 3 Stars
This is the story of Mathurin Kerbouchard, a sailor/druid/horseman/student (most of all...lol) and defender of all that is good in Moorish Spain (Very interesting period in itself.) and elsewhere.
I find the story very similar to others that L'amour has done (some of them quite well) but this is the best. The all encompasing man view that he likes to have about his characters is even more interesting in this, where knowledge, if anything, is more of a tool even than skill with "a blade."
This will bring to bud within you a desire to read, to contemplate, to sit in a tea house in the streets of Cordoba and enjoy thoughs...to rage across a plain on a beautiful Arabian mare, characteristic of the most precious breeding of any age...decend deep into ancient underground staircases seeking an escape from hunters...even relish the taste of water on lips almost too long parched, believing (perhaps truthfully) that you have never enjoyed something more...Anotherwards, It's a good read! Nothing too heavy, it had much the same effect on me as the Harry Potter series: just wanted to read it, nothing more. There isn't a wealth of knowledge here, just enough to make it rather interesting.
Oh, yes, I particularly liked the part where the Bedouin boy speaks to Kerbouchard about the Syrian(?) camels. These are creatures much too forgoten in fiction. The camel is a creature just as worthy (or more) than a horse.
It's better than three stars, but four was a bit of a stretch...
Other recommended readings by this author: West from Singapore (Short stories about sailor/Captain "Ponga" Jim Mayo), The Haunted Mesa (about Anasazi mythology...very interesting. Here, according to my aunts who spent several years working for a native Anasazi, L'amour does his homework), and The Last of the Breed (about an American (Irish-Soux) pilot captured on a test flight, believed dead, and forced to attempt to flee a USSR prison and the brutalities of the Siberian climate alone). These are the four best L'amour books, in my and my family's opinion.
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