Emilio Salgari (1862–1911) is a famous writer, whom his contemporaries called the “Italian Jules Verne,” who created about two hundred novels and short stories. Among these numerous works, sparkling with vivid imagination and exciting plots, the most popular were Salgari's two pirate cycles: "Pirates of the Antilles", about the adventures of the Black Corsair and his loyal followers, as well as a series of novels under the general title "Pirates of Malaysia", about the noble robber Sandokan .This edition includes a novel that continues the fascinating adventures of Sandokan on the shores of the southern seas: “The Conquest of the Empire” (for the first time in Russian!).