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Walker & CO USA 2005 ISBN 9780802714596. Hard cover dust wrapper 369pp b&w plates. A little wear on edges, black texta dot on top page edges else very good+. On his way back from the Third Crusade in 1192, Richard the Lionheart was shipwrecked and stranded near Venice. He was arrested and handed over to Henry VI, the Holy Roman Emperor who held him for ransom, which Eleanor of Aquitane, Richard's mother, paid. As well as well as recounting this story, where the realities of violence and geopolitics were juxtaposed against chivalric ideal, Boyle includes details of the drama of the Third Crusade and the dynamic power politics of a pivotal era.