Historic Girls
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781419123849
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Literary; Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: MANY and many miles and many days' journey toward the rising sun, over seas and mountains and deserts,-farther to the east than Rome, or Constantinople, or even Jerusalem and old Damascus,-stand the ruins of a once mighty city, scattered over a mountain-walled oasis of the great Syrian desert, thirteen hundred feet above the sea, and just across the northern border of Arabia.