Sharpe's Tiger (Signed Copy)

Cornwell, Bernard

ISBN 10: 0002250101 / ISBN 13: 9780002250108

Published by Harper Collins, 1997

About this Item

Signed copy of the British edition of this Richard Sharpe Adventure. This is the first book in a trilogy that gives the early back story of the dauntless Age of Napoleon rifleman. There are no Frenchmen in sight as we find Sharpe getting into his earliest scrapes -- in India! Signed by Bernard Cornwell on a bookplate affixed to the title page. 304 pages, red cloth. Has tanning of the page edges, a bit of a shelf lean, some general scuffing from reading wear.

Seller Inventory # 013585

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sharpe's Tiger (Signed Copy)
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002250101
• ISBN 13: 9780002250108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

The prequel to the series, describing Sharpe's experiences in India. Throughout the series, there are references to Sharpe's early soldiering life in India. With the same meticulous research and attention to detail that is found in the Peninsular War books, Bernard Cornwell has sumptuously recreated the 1799 campaign against Seringapatam which made the British masters of southern India, a campaign that pitted brutalized soldiers against an ancient and splendid civilization. Sharpe, the rest of his battalion and rising star of the general staff Arthur Wellesley, are about to embark upon the siege of the island citadel of the Tippoo of Mysore, Seringapatam. The British must remove this potentate from his Tiger Throne, but he has gone to great lengths to defend his city from attack. When a senior British officer is captured by the Tippoo's forces, Sharpe is offered a chance to attempt a rescue and infiltrate the Tippoo's forces. Sharpe needs no invitation to get away from the tyrannical Sergeant Hakeswill, but once inside the dangerous world of the Tippoo he realises he will need all his wits just to stay alive, let alone save the British army from catastrophe. Set against the background of dazzling wealth, ruinous poverty, gorgeous palaces, sudden cruelty and pitiless battles, Sharpe's Tiger is his greatest adventure yet.

From the Back Cover

"It was a bloody awful shot," Sharpe said.
"My mother could lay a gun better than that."
"I didn't think you had a mother," Private Garrard said.
"Everyone's got a mother, Tom."
"Not Sergeant Hakeswill," Garrard said, then spat a mix of dust
and spittle. . . . "Hakeswill was spawned of the devil."

Richard Sharpe—Soldier, hero, rogue—the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty, he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles, whose green jacket he proudly wears.