The Raiders

Samuel Rutherford Crockett

Original title: The raiders, being some passages in the life of John Faa, Lord and Earl of Little Egypt

first published 1894 W. Briggs, 1894 220 pages

CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches -- no. 26996

Crockett’s ‘breakthrough’ and most famous novel, first published in 1894, this is part of a loose trilogy of smugglers and gypsies stories featuring the Herons, the Maxwells and the Faas. Stevensonesque in style, it is unique in its descriptions of Galloway’s coast and hills and still thrills a modern audience. *‘'The Raiders ' vibrates with sufficient dramatic action for a dozen ordinary novels. We are swept breat...

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Raiders : New Edition edition · 2020 · Independently Published · 9798580941110
The Raiders paperback · 2016 · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 216 pages · 9781539131830
Raiders edition · 2015 · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 264 pages · 9781522840633
The Raiders paperback · 2014 · Ayton Publishing · 316 pages · 9781908933102
Raiders - Being Some Passages in the Life of John Faa, Lord and Earl of Little Egypt edition · 2011 · Read Books · 364 pages · 9781446075777
Raiders edition · 2000 · Eighteen Hundred Seventy Three Press · 9780594020691
Raiders edition · 2000 · Eighteen Hundred Seventy Three Press · 9780594000099
The Raiders paperback · 1980 · Alloway Publishing, Limited · 288 pages · 9780907526537
The raiders. edition · 1978 · Macdonald & Sproat
The raiders edition · 1894 · W. Briggs · 220 pages

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