The Walking Drum
First edition cover - pre publication copy | |
| Author | Louis L'Amour |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical novel |
| Publisher | Bantam Books |
Publication date | 1 May 1984 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 468 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-553-27013-3 (first edition, hardback) |
The Walking Drum is a novel by the American author Louis L'Amour. Unlike most of his other novels, The Walking Drum is not set in the frontier era of the American West, but rather is an historical novel set in the Middle Ages—12th-century Europe and West Asia.