Uarda
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: June 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9781419191657
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; General; Fiction / General; Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: By the walls of Thebes-the old city of a hundred gates-the Nile spreads to a broad river; the heights, which follow the stream on both sides, here take a more decided outline; solitary, almost cone-shaped peaks stand out sharply from the level background of the many-colored. limestone hills, on which no palm-tree flourishes and in which no humble desert-plant can strike root.