The White Company: English Archers in France
Arthur Conan Doyle
Jul 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Dominic Serres and Gustave Courbet. A novice leaves his abbey for the world in 1366, joins a company of English archers under a knight of the old school, and marches into France where chivalry is already a business. Doyle thought this his best book by far and was baffled that readers wanted detective stories instead; he researched the fourteenth century for a year and put the longbow, not the sword, at the center. Fifty-three plates of castle, siege, and pilgrim scenes, among them works by Courbet and Meissonier, follow the archers from abbey walls to the fortresses of France.
Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Dominic Serres and Gustave Courbet. A novice leaves his abbey for the world in 1366, joins a company of English archers under a knight of the old school, and marches into France where chivalry is already a business....
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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish physician and writer. He practiced medicine in Southsea, England, before writing full-time. His works include the Sherlock Holmes detective series, The Lost World, and the historical novel The White Company.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish physician and writer. He practiced medicine in Southsea, England, before writing full-time. His works include the Sherlock Holmes detective series, The Lost World, and the historical novel The White Company.
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