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- At the center of The Walking Drum is Kerbouchard, one of L'Amour's greatest heroes. Warrior, lover, scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge, danger and revenge.
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The protagonist is Mathurin Kerbouchard of Brittany. In the course of the story he travels from place to place, ultimately in search of his disappeared father. Along the way, he finds himself in the roles of slave, pirate, scholar, physician, merchant, alchemist, and yet always a lover.
- Louis L'Amour
- 1984
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At the center of The Walking Drum is Kerbouchard, one of L'Amour's greatest heroes. Warrior, lover, scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge, danger and revenge.
May 1, 1984 · “The Walking Drum” is a historical novel set in 12th century Europe and the Middle East. Mathurin Kerbouchard, the main character, learns that his mother has been murdered in Brittany and that his father is now forced into servitude somewhere east of Baghdad and south of Tehran.
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The pirates are lead by Hugh de Tournemine, once a deputy to Mat’s father, Jean Kerbouchard, a legendary corsair. Tournemine has staged a mutiny, captured Jean’s ships and turned most of Jean’s loyal crew into slaves at the oars … Jean himself, however, has disappeared or suffered some unknown fate at the hands of Tornemine.
The Walking Drum by Louis L'Amour is a captivating historical novel that follows the adventures of Mathurin Kerbouchard as he travels across medieval Europe and the Middle East in search of his kidnapped father.
Its hero, Kerbouchard, is pure L'Amour -- probably an ancestor of the Sacketts. After raiders sack his village, we follow Kerbouchard as he begins to find his father, a famous travelling merchant. Turns out the villain behind the raid was an old enemy of his father's, and he has Kerbouchard is captured by slavers not long after his quest begins.
Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge, danger, and revenge. Across Europe, over the Russian steppes, and through the Byzantine wonders of Constantinople, Kerbouchard is thrust into the treacheries, passions, violence, and dazzling wonders of a magnificent time.
