Download or read book Richard I (Serapis Classics) written by Jacob Abbott and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Richard the First, the Crusader, was a boisterous, reckless, and desperate man, and he made a great deal of noise in the world in his day. He began his career very early in life by quarreling with his father. Indeed, his father, his mother, and all his brothers and sisters were engaged, as long as the father lived, in perpetual wars against each other, which were waged with the most desperate fierceness on all sides...