The Walking Drum

In the mostly pagan seafaring region of Brittany, a young Celtic man Mathurin Kerbouchard, just a teenager really, comes back home from a long successful, dangerous fishing trip off the cold waters of Iceland, the voyage was good but he finds the family's ancestral house burnt to the ground, his bra......more

This was the second L'Amour novel I've read, the first being The Haunted Mesa nearly a decade ago, and I have gained an enormous new respect for the author. Known primarily for his Westerns, L'Amour tackles an entirely different venue with this story that sweeps across all of Northern Europe, the Eu......more

This is the best book I have ever read by this author. For one thing it was not a western. It took place long ago. A young man had lost his father while his father was sailing and fighting wars. The young man sets out on a quest to find his father wheather dead or alive. He has many trials and tribul......more

A long, meandering tome which juxtaposes some decent adventure writing with some really boring sequences. I kept wanting to yell at the characters to stop wondering about things over and over and just go look. This is the book which convinced me of two things: Louis L'Amour was better at writing shor......more

This book was really fun to read. The swashbuckling, womanizing, philosophizing adventurer Kerbouchard trapses around 11th century Europe, alternating between escaping death at the hands of half a dozen armed guards and bedding beautiful, exotic women. He also strikes revenge on the man who murdered......more