The narrator opens his old desk and recalls schooldays, truancy and a boyhood friendship, then a life that carries him across Europe and its fashionable hotels, into the orbit of the dazzling Princess Vocqsal, and finally to the Crimean War, where his gift for languages makes him an interpreter attached to the Turkish army of Omar Pasha.
A Victorian adventure romance by a soldier turned novelist who knew the Crimean campaign at first hand. Download the free EPUB.
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