The Talisman
Subtitle: The Works Of Sir Walter Scott
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780766187764
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Fiction - General; Fiction; Literary
First sentence: THE burning sun of Syria had not yet attained its highest point in the horizon, when a knight of the Red Cross, who had left his distant northern home and joined the host of the Crusaders in Palestine, was pacing slowly along the sandy deserts which lie in the vicinity of the Dead Sea, or, as it is called, the Lake Asphaltites, where the waves of the Jordan pour themselves into an inland sea, from which there is no discharge of waters.