About the book: 2008 / Having gone on instructions from the Lyon Academy of Sciences to India in search of the sacred book of the Hindus, Captain Corcoran meets there the Hindu ruler Golkar and his beautiful daughter Sita, who is threatened by Golkar's former chief minister and now traitor, Rao. Captivated by the beauty of the girl, Captain Corcoran promises to protect her from any danger and entrusts the protection of Sita to his favorite, the tigress Louison. Alfred Assolan (1827–1886) is a popular French writer who has written several dozen adventure novels; the novel “The Adventures of Captain Corcoran” went through more than ten reprints in France.