A spectacular volume that brings back to life the most indomitable hero of Italian literature. Sandokan is a romantic and deeply political hero, a figure of resistance and rebellion, and the protagonist of a cycle of adventures that, at the end of the nineteenth century, played a decisive role in shaping the Italian collective imagination, in a young country eager for distant worlds.

Sandokan embodies a universal and timeless need: escape, mystery, and the allure of remote lands where courage, loyalty, love, and the desire for self-determination are put to the test.

Original illustrations, editorial materials, and cinematic and comic imagery show how the characters inhabiting the Salgarian epic have crossed eras and languages, becoming fixed in the collective imagination as archetypal figures of adventure, courage, and loyalty