Book description
It's never easy being a knight, especially for a practical Eudoric
Dambertson, whose mind and temperature are better suited to trade than
to the highly impractical demands of chivalry. Take the simple matter of
courting a wife. To please his potential father-in-law, the enchanter
Baldonius, the young man must bring back two square yards of dragon
hide. Only then can he earn his knightly spurs and the hand of the
beauteous Lusina. But battles with dragons always seem to go better in
the ballads Lyon Sprague de Camp was born in 1907 and died in 2000.
During a writing career that spanned seven decades, he wrote over a
hundred books in the areas of science fiction, fantasy, historical
fiction, non-fiction and biography. Although arguably best known for his
continuation of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories, de Camp was an
important figure in the formative period of modern SF, alongside the
likes of Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein, and was a winner of the
Hugo, World Fantasy Life Achievement and SFWA Grand Master awards.
