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Synopsis: It was conceived as an amazing journey through time and space to a land where it was possible to find fights, huge, tigers or diamonds the size of a walnut. Sandokan is the owner and lord of the island of Mompracem. Driven by revenge against the English who took away his family and kingdom, he set out to travel the coasts of Malaysia with his men, cruelly exercising piracy against the British enemy. For this reason, it is known by the nickname of El Tigre de Malaysia. One night when the island is shaken by a strong hurricane, Sandokan receives a visit from Yánez, his most loyal and faithful friend, who informs him about Lady Mariana, niece of the governor of the English colony of Labuán, a young lady who, due to her extraordinary beauty is known as La Perla de Labuán. Impressed by his friend's comments, Sandokan will undertake an expedition commanded by two praos bound for Labuán, in order to meet such a beautiful woman, but upon reaching the outskirts of the island, the ships are intercepted by a British cruiser that manages to sink them and kill almost the entire crew. Sandokan, the only survivor of the attack, will manage to reach the mainland, bruised and wounded. About the Author: Italian writer, Emilio Salgari was born in Verona, Italy, on August 21, 1862, and died in Turin, Italy, on April 25, 1911. The son of a merchant family, as a young man he served aboard a ship that toured the Adriatic and Mediterranean coast, but there is no evidence that he made more voyages by sea, although he claimed that the exotic places that appeared in his books were based on sites that he had personally visited. Salgari began to prepare at the Royal Naval Technical Institute P. Sarpi in Venice, but did not get to obtain the title of captain that he longed for. His action-packed novels were many, but he is probably best known for creating the character of Sandokan. Despite his success, Salgari was one of the best-selling authors of his generation, he lived in relative misery that, together with the mental imbalance of his wife, the theater actress Ida Peruzzi, with whom he had four children, led him to commit suicide in 1911 by performing the traditional rite of Hara-kiri. Salgari wrote a total of eighty-four novels and countless stories, highlighting titles such as The Tigers of Mompracen or The Pirates of Malaysia. Several of his books have been made into a movie and his main character, Sandokan, has starred in a television series.