In the Holy Land during the Third Crusade, the Scottish knight Sir Kenneth meets a Saracen emir in single combat and then in friendship. Back in the Christian camp, King Richard lies sick with fever, the crusading princes intrigue against one another, and a Moorish physician offers a cure that the king’s followers do not trust.
Scott’s romance of the Crusades, notable for its admiring portrait of Saladin. Download the free EPUB.