Beau Geste
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few adventure novels have burned as brightly in the literary imagination as Beau Geste, P.C. Wren's masterwork of honour, sacrifice, and brotherhood set against the scorching sands of the Sahara. The story chronicles the Geste brothers — Michael Beau, Digby, and John — who each, in turn, vanish from their English estate under a cloud of suspicion surrounding the theft of a magnificent jewel, only to reunite as legionnaires in the brutal French Foreign Legion, where loyalty is tested by blood and unforgiving desert heat. Wren crafts a tale of breathtaking pace and moral complexity, weaving themes of chivalric honour and self-sacrifice through an atmosphere of exotic danger and institutional cruelty. This celebrated edition, illustrated by Helen McKie and accompanied by an afterword from critic Brian Stableford, presents the novel in its full glory, reaffirming its status as one of the great adventure romances of the twentieth century. Will the secret of the Blue Water sapphire — and the true meaning of a beau geste, a beautiful gesture — finally be revealed?
Author: Percival Christopher Wren
Format: Hardback
Genre: Adventure fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few adventure novels have burned as brightly in the literary imagination as Beau Geste, P.C. Wren's masterwork of honour, sacrifice, and brotherhood set against the scorching sands of the Sahara. The story chronicles the Geste brothers — Michael Beau, Digby, and John — who each, in turn, vanish from their English estate under a cloud of suspicion surrounding the theft of a magnificent jewel, only to reunite as legionnaires in the brutal French Foreign Legion, where loyalty is tested by blood and unforgiving desert heat. Wren crafts a tale of breathtaking pace and moral complexity, weaving themes of chivalric honour and self-sacrifice through an atmosphere of exotic danger and institutional cruelty. This celebrated edition, illustrated by Helen McKie and accompanied by an afterword from critic Brian Stableford, presents the novel in its full glory, reaffirming its status as one of the great adventure romances of the twentieth century. Will the secret of the Blue Water sapphire — and the true meaning of a beau geste, a beautiful gesture — finally be revealed?