Captain Alatriste

Main Author: Pérez-Reverte, Arturo.
Other Authors: Peden, Margaret Sayers.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Spanish
Published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2005.
Series: Las aventuras del capitá́́n Alatriste ; 1
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Physical Description: 253 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 039915275X (alk. paper)
Author Notes: Novelist and former journalist Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez was born in Cartagena, Spain on November 25, 1951. He started his journalistic career writing for the Spanish newspaper Pueblo and later for Television Espanola - the Spanish state owned television, in the role of war correspondant. He worked as a war correspondent from 1973 to1994 before becoming a full-time writer. His first novel, El húsar, which was set in the Napoleonic Wars, was published in 1986, and he is well-known internationally for his popular Captain Alatriste fiction series, which takes place in 17th-century Europe. Pérez-Reverte has been elected to the Spanish Royal Academy.

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