The Talisman

Complete and unabridged, with 52 full-page plates by Gustave Doré, Edvard Munch and Lambert Barnard. A Scottish knight in the crusader camp before Jerusalem, a truce, a disguised Saladin and a leopard skin, in the desert where nobody can afford to be honest. Scott wrote it in 1825 as the second of his Tales of the Crusaders, and it remains the most sympathetic portrait of Saladin in English fictio...