Author: Scott, Sir Walter
Title: The Talisman - A Tale Of The Crusades
Description: Marcus Ward, 1878, reprint. Cloth, G. 382pp, b/w illustrations, spine sunned, fore edges & a few pages foxed, but generally a good solid reading copy. The Illustrated Waverley Novels. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ The second of Scott's novels to be set at the time of the Third Crusade during the reign of Henry II, this time the story being set in Syria.

Keywords: fiction, literature, historical fiction, crusades, third crusade