Geber a Tale of the Reign of Harun Al Raschid Khalif of Baghdad
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: September 20, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781417946235
Subjects: Historical fiction; Historical - General; Fiction / Historical; Fiction; Fiction - Historical
First sentence: THE traveller of to-day who visits the dirty, straggling, little town of Tersous on the Cydnus, finds little to remind his imagination that this is the Tarsus of the apostle Paul, one of the famous marts of the world, an ancient centre of learning and culture only rivalled by Alexandria or later by Baghdad; a city considered worthy of a visit by the luxury-loving Cleopatra and the enchained Marc Antony, in a gilded galley with sails of purple silk and oars of silver.