"Sinbad the Sailor" presents a retelling of the stories of the most
famous adventurer from One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, with
added information covering the history of the stories and the age
in which they are set.
Stories say that in the age of the Caliph Haroun al-Rashid, in the
port city of Basra, there lived a wealthy man named Sinbad the
Sailor. Sinbad had great tales to tell, of the seven voyages on
which he acquired his fortune, of the strangeness and terror he
encountered along the way, of huge monsters and strange people, and
of storms at sea and lands beyond the horizon.
This book retells the tales of those voyages and places them in
context. It discusses not only the greater collection of stories
known as "One Thousand and One Arabian Nights" within which Sinbad
appears, but medieval Cairo where these tales were told, the
historical Abbasid Dynasty which ruled Sinbad's home city, and the
great Arabian voyages of exploration and trade which inspired these
stories. It also looks at the modern incarnations of Sinbad that
have appeared since his tales reached the West - including Sinbad
as the swashbuckling hero of stage plays, stop-motion movies, and
television fantasy.
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