One of Cleopatra's Nights (Notable American Authors Series)
Publisher: Reprint Services Corp
Published: June 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780781230674
Subjects: Literature; Fiction
First sentence: NINETEEN hundred years ago from the date of this writing, a magnificently gilded and painted cangia was descending the Nile as rapidly as fifty long flat oars, which seemed to crawl over the furrowed water like the legs of a gigantic scarabaeus, could impel it.