What would you sacrifice for love—your power, your fame, your oath of vengeance? Malaysia, 1849. Sandokan, the fearsome "Tiger of Malaysia," leads the Tigers of Mompracem—a band of rebel pirates waging war against the colonizers who murdered his family and stole his kingdom. Alongside his loyal friend Yanez de Gomera, a Portuguese adventurer, he has sworn merciless revenge against the Dutch and British empires. But when Sandokan hears whispers of the "Pearl of Labuan"—a young woman of extraordinary beauty living on a British-controlled island—fate draws him into dangerous waters. What begins as a reckless expedition traps the Tiger in the heart of the enemy's lair, where he discovers a passion that threatens to destroy the rebellion he leads and everyone who depends on him. Selected by Julia Eccleshare as one of the 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up In 2007, Sandokan was listed as one of the 20th century’s greatest characters in Lucy Daniel’s Defining Moments in Books: The Greatest Books, Writers, Characters, Passages and Events that Shook the Literary World. Now an 8-part miniseries featuring Can Yaman , Alanah Bloor , Alessandro Preziosi and Ed Westwick. Other novels by Emilio Salgari The Sandokan Series The Tigers of Mompracem The Mystery of the Black Jungle The Pirates of Malaysia The Two Tigers The King of the Sea Quest for a Throne The Reckoning (forthcoming) The Black Corsair Series The Black Corsair The Queen of the Caribbean The Black Corsair's Daughter (forthcoming) Captain Tempesta (Lady Knight) A few words from readers "Without Emilio Salgari there would be no Italian, French, Spanish, or Latin American Literature." — Carlos Fuentes “During my childhood I got the best of my information about exotic countries not from textbooks but by reading the adventure novels of Jules Verne, Emilio Salgari and Karl May.” — Umberto Eco “I read those books with a flashlight under the blanket in bed and those strong characters and great adventures shaped my taste in books for a long time.” — Isabel Allende "It was intolerable that these magic books should come to an end... I sometimes invented new chapters for them. Those additions... were the first pieces that I wrote, the first signs of my vocation as a storyteller." — Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize Winner "Salgari's voyages carried me far away into the world of dreams..." — Pablo Neruda, Nobel Prize Winner "I spent a large part of my childhood in my grandfather's library, devouring the adventure classics of Alexandre Dumas, Emilio Salgari, Joseph Conrad and Robert Louis Stevenson." — Arturo Pérez-Reverte "In the summer of 1904, at age five, my mother gave me The Black Corsair and The Pirates of Malaysia , books I still own to this day. So at age five I entered those exotic worlds that Salgari created in his numerous novels. I think I even preferred those stories to the more popular and more sophisticated works of Jules Verne." —Jose Luis Borges In 1936 Gabriel Garcia Marquez (age 8) went to live with his father for a time in Sucre. He studied at Zipaquirá, a place that still holds many painful memories and where he spent a great amount of time in solitude. Of that time he writes: “Zipaquira was a cold city… I studied in a large boarding school with two or three hundred children... Though there were no classes on Saturdays and Sundays, I would not leave the dormitory, not wanting to cope with the sadness and indifference of the townspeople. During those years of solitude, I spent all my free time reading the books of Jules Verne and Emilio Salgari.”