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Conan the Buccaneer

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1971
2020
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Prologue - Dream of Blood
1 - An Old Zingaran Custom
2 - A Knife in the Dark
3 - Death of the Sea Queen
4 - The Nameless Isle
5 - At the World's Edge
6 - Flaming Eyes
7 - The Toad Thing
8 - The Cobra Crown
9 - Wind in the Rigging
10 - Black Coast
11 - Web of Doom
12 - City of Warrior Women
13 - The Queen of the Amazons
14 - Under the Lash
15 - The Black Labyrinth
16 - The Devouring Tree
17 - The Wreck of the Wastrel
18 - A Kingdom in the Balance
19 - King Thoth Amon
20 - Red Blood and Cold Steel
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A series of books about Conan the Cimmerian written by Robert E Howard, L Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter.  This is the core series of books which are all from or based on stories or notes by Robert E Howard.

1) Conan
2) Conan of Cimmeria
3) Conan the Freebooter
4) Conan the Wanderer
5) Conan the Adventurer
6) Conan the Buccaneer
7) Conan the Warrior
8) Conan the Usurper
9) Conan the Conqueror
10) Conan the Avenger
11) Conan of Aquilonia
12) Conan of the Isles
Copyright © 1971 by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter
To the greatest living creator of swordplay-and-sorcery,
J.R.R. Tolkien
Two hours before midnight, the princess Chabela awoke.
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The rigging creaked, the bow wave soughed, and the gulls squealed as the Wastrel sailed southward, bearing Conan to new adventures.
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Sunset transformed the cloudy vault of heaven into a canopy of burning splendor.  Over the dark waves, flecked with crimson reflections, the blunt black bow of the Petrel threw up a snowy bow wave as she ran free to the southwest under a quartering west wind.  Far behind her and unknown to any aboard her, Conan followed in the Wastrel, hovering just beyond easy detection under the burning sunset and later under the silently wheeling stars.

In the master's cabin, Zarono sprawled in his great chair, brooding over a silver goblet set with uncut smaragds.  The bouquet of strong Shemitish wine filled the wood-paneled chamber.  The swaying lamps, hung by chains from overhead, shed wavering light on crinkled parchments pinned to the walls between ribbed stanchions.  The light winked on the jewels in the hilts of swords and daggers, which also adorned these walls.

Zarono's sallow features were gloomy and his cold black eyes withdrawn.  He wore a loose, full-sleeved blouse of soiled white silk, with lacy ruffles at throat and wrist.  His thick black hair was tousled, and he was deep in drink.

When knuckles rapped lightly on his door, he growled a curse, then called a grudging permission to enter.  In came Menkara with the rolled chart in one hand.  The lean Stygian surveyed the sprawled figure of the privateer with prim disfavor.

"More sorceries?" sneered Zarono, and hiccuped.  "Can you never leave an ordinary mortal to the pleasures of the vine, without thrusting your ugly face into his thoughts?  Well, say your say."

Without answering this flare of drunken temper, Menkara unrolled the chart on the table before Zarono and pointed a bony finger at the lines of cryptic glyphs wherewith the enigmatic scroll was inscribed.

"I have been puzzling over the Mitraist priest's chart ever since we took it from him," said the Stygian, with unusual tension in his normally dull and listless voice.  "The coastline shown here is obviously that of southerly Stygia.  Although the language is unknown to me, I found that some of the captions bore a tantalizing familiarity.  I have bent my intellect to the task of deciphering the inscription, while you have sat here swilling like a fool -"

Zarono flushed and started to rise, one hand going to the hilt of his sword.  But Menkara halted him with a raised palm.

"Control your personal feelings, man.  This is a matter of greater importance.  Listen: I have studied comparable tongues in my magical apprenticeship, and I know that the ancient Valusian tongue, like those of ancient Stygia and Acheron, was writ with an alphabetic script, each symbol denoting a sound.  Since certain parts of this chart show the lands we know as Shem and Stygia, with cities like Asgalun and Khemi, I was able to deduce the meaning of certain letters in the inscription, where they appear in the captions denoting these places.  Other inscriptions seem to mark the sites of such vanished elder cities as Kamula and Python."

 

Added: 30-Jul-2019
Last Updated: 27-Sep-2024

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 01-May-1977
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-May-1977
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Cover Price:
$1.95
Pages*:
191
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Internal ID:
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ISBN:
0-441-11676-0
ISBN-13:
978-0-441-11676-8
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Frank Frazetta  - Cover Artist
CONAN
THE BUCCANEER


"Conan stood silently at the quarterdeck rail as the Westrel veered into strange waters.  With only he pole star to guide him, what might he encounter in the darkly glittering immensity?  What fabulous isles and unknown peoples?  Only his prey, the evil Zarono, knew better whiter he was bound!

"The mighty barbarian laughed gustily.  Crom!  A man could die but once.  Enough to combat the terror when one met it, with steel in the hand and battle madness in the heart.  He, Conan, would take his chances on the Nameless Isle."

Thrill with the most colossal hero of epic fantasy as he battles the demonic powers of Thoth-Amon in a mighty adventure in search of fabulous treasure and a beautiful princess!
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Author(s)

 Lin Carter
Birth: 09 Jun 1930 St. Petersburg, Florida, US
Death: 07 Feb 1988 Montclair, New Jersey, US

Notes:
Lin Carter (June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was born and raised in St Petersburg, Florida.  He later returned there after serving in the US Army  in the Korean Conflict where he received a Purple Heart.  He moved to New  York City and attended Columbia University in 1953 and 1954.  He worked as  a copywriter for law firms, ad agencies, and book publishers.  In 1969 he  became a full-time writer, editor and anthologist of fantasy & science  fiction until his death in February 7, 1988.

Fantasy was Carter's great favorite genre and the most of his writings were about "Swords and Sorcery".  He began writing stories while in high school with L Frank Baum, Edgar Rice Burroughs and J.R.R. Tolkien being his major influences.

Lin became an editor at Ballantine Books where he reprinted many of his earlier works.  Dell and DAW also published a lot of Lin Carter's stories.

 L Sprague de Camp
Birth: 27 Nov 1907 New York City, New York, USA
Death: 06 Nov 2000 Plano, Texas, USA

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