Introduction
THE WAY OF THE SWORDS is the name from an early draft Glenn Lord published in the Donald Grant book ‘Road of Azrael’. The original title is THE ROAD OF THE EAGLES for which two drafts presently exist. It’s an unpublished historical adventure store that de Camp turned into a Conan story.
- An early draft that Glenn Lord published in the Donald Grant book ROAD OF AZRAEL as “The Way of the Swords.”
- A final draft (now at Cross Plains Public Library) that L. Sprague de Camp found and rewrote as “Conan, Man of Destiny,” then later published as “The Road of the Eagles.”
Alternate titles:
THE ROAD OF THE EAGLES and CONAN, MAN OF DESTINY.
Published in:
- THE ROAD OF AZRAEL, Grant, 1979 (Regular edition)
- THE ROAD OF AZRAEL, Grant, 1979 (Limited edition)
- THE ROAD OF AZRAEL, Bantam, July 1980
- LE SEIGNEUR DE SAMARCANDE, NeO, September 1986 (French)
- BRAMY IMPERIUM, Wydawnictwo GEA, 1994 (Polish)
- SHADOW HAWK (TEN’ JASTREBA), North-West, 1998 (Russian)
The REH final draft, with the original text and title restored to “The Road of Eagles” has been published here:
- LORD OF SAMARCAND AND OTHER ADVENTURE TALES OF THE OLD ORIENT, Bison Books, April 2005
- LE SEIGNEUR DE SAMARCANDE, Bragelonne, July 2009 (French)
- SWORD WOMAN AND OTHER HISTORICAL ADVENTURES, Del Rey, January 2011
- LE SEIGNEUR DE SAMARCANDE. L’OMBRE DU VAUTOUR, Bragelonne, March 2013 (French)
- ROBERT E. HOWARD FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER V12N1, Robert E. Howard Foundation, Spring 2018 (Part 1 of 2)
- ROBERT E. HOWARD FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER V12N2, Robert E. Howard Foundation, Summer 2018 (Part 2 of 2)
- LE SEIGNEUR DE SAMARCANDE, Le Livre de Poche, April 2020 (French)
The L. Sprague de Camp Conan story titled “The Road of Eagles” appears in:
- TALES OF CONAN, Gnome Press, 1955
- CONAN THE FREEBOOTER, Lancer, 1968
- CONAN DER FREIBEUTER, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1970 (German)
- コナンと荒鷲の道 (KONAN TO ARAWASHI NO MICHI), Sōgen Suiri Bunko, December 1971 (Japanese)
- CONAN EL PIRATA, Editorial Bruguera, June 1973 (Spanish)
- 荒獅子コナン (ARAJISHI KONAN) (ROUGH LION CONAN), Hayakawa Bunko, October 1973 (Japanese)
- CONAN THE FREEBOOTER, Sphere, 1974
- CONAN THE FREEBOOTER, Prestige, 1977
- CONAN DE VRIJBUITER, Zwarte Beertjes, 1977 (Dutch)
- CONAN IL PIRATA, Editrice Nord, March 1979 (Italian)
- THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN VOLUME 1 NUMBER 38, Marvel Comics, March 1979 (graphic adaptation)
- CONAN THE FREEBOOTER, Ace, 1981
- CONAN LE FLIBUSTIER, Jean-Claude Lattès, June 1982 (French)
- CONAN DER PIRAT, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, June 1982 (German)
- CONAN DER PIRAT, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1982 (German, 2nd edition)
- CONAN DER PIRAT, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1983 (German, 3rd edition)
- CONAN EL PIRATA, Ediciones Forum, 1983 (Spanish)
- CONAN LE FLIBUSTIER, J’ai Lu, September 1985 (French)
- KONAN: CRNI KOLOS, Niro Dečje Novine, 1985 (Serbo-Croatian)
- THE CONAN CHRONICLES Volume 1, Sphere, August 1989
- LA LEGGENDA DI CONAN IL CIMMERO, Editrice Nord, October 1989 (Italian)
- CONAN PIRATEN, Target Games, 1989 (Swedish)
- CONAN LE FLIBUSTIER, J’ai Lu, May 1990 (French, 2nd printing)
- CONAN PIRAT, Wydawnictwo PiK, 1991 (Polish)
- CONAN LE FLIBUSTIER, J’ai Lu, March 1993 (French, 3rd printing)
- CONAN IL CIMMERO, Editrice Nord, June 1993 (Italian)
- CONAN DER PIRAT, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1994 (German)
- LA SAGA DI CONAN IL CIMMERO, Editrice Nord, 1994 (Italian)
- CONAN EL PIRATA, Ediciones Martinez Roca, 1995 (Spanish)
- CONAN FRIBYTTEREN, Semic / Nordisk Forlag A/S, 1995 (Norwegian)
- CONAN, Claude Lefrancq Editeur, October 1998 (French)
- CONAN: PLAMENÝ NŮŹ, Klub Julese Vernea, 2008 (Czech)
The L. Sprague de Camp Conan story titled “Conan, Man of Destiny” appears in:
- FANTASTIC UNIVERSE Volume 4 Number 5, King-Size Publications, December 1955
Source
As The Road of the Eagles:
As Conan, Man of destiny:
