Download or read book Count Luckner, the Sea Devil written by Lowell Thomas and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company. This book was released on 1927 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Felix Graf von Luckner (born Dresden, Germany, 9 June 1881, died Malmö, Sweden, 13 April 1966) was a German nobleman, navy officer, author and noted sailor who earned the epithet Der Seeteufel (the Sea-Devil) ? and his crew that of Die Piraten des Kaisers (the Emperor's Pirates) ? for his exploits in command of the sailing commerce raider SMS Seeadler (Sea Eagle) in 1916?1917. It was his habit of successfully waging war without any casualties that made him a hero and a legend on both sides. "--Wikipedia.