Emilio Salgari (1862-1911) - a famous writer, whom contemporaries called "the Italian Jules Verne", who created about two hundred novels and stories It seems that there is no continent on which the characters of his works would not walk, there are no seas and oceans on which his noble corsairs and filibusters would not swim. The current edition includes three novels from the so-called African cycle, with two of them “The Thieves of the Sahara” and “The Robbers of Rif” being published in Russian for the first time. In these novels, exciting adventures in the best traditions of Emilio Salgari take place in North Africa, in the lands of ruthless robbers, religious fanatics and exotic beauties. The works are accompanied by illustrations by famous Italian artists Gennaro D’Amato and Alberto della Valle ..