Mikael Karvajalka

Also known as: Mikael Hairy-Foot

Author

Mika Waltari

Language

Finnish

Year

1948

Country

Finland

Genre

Novel

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The Adventurer is a novel by Finnish author Mika Waltari, published in 1948. It is a fictional tale of a young Finnish man, Mikael Karvajalka (Hairy-foot), set in 16th century Europe. Mikael is portrayed as an intellectual but rather naive person. Beginning life as an orphan bastard, he pursues a better social position with help of friendly people and by means of theological studies, but ends up drifting along through historical events across Europe rather than being able to steer his life himself.