For centuries,caravans of camels have travelled Turkey's Silk Roads piled high with exotic cargoes from India,Arabia and China. When a poor stonecutter called Salahaddin makes a miraculous find,he sets off on a perilous journey along the Silk Road to Istanbul and resorts to telling stories to stay alive. Brimming with scents,sounds and sinister merchants,this rich hoard of stories - including The Prince,the Nightingale and the Silent Princess,All for a Wrinkled Pomegranate,The Salt and The Golden Watermelons - is stylishly illustrated by Paul Hess and makes a sparkling introduction to a land still steeped in mystery.
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Publisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers LtdISBN: 9781847802798Number of pages: 144Weight: 109 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 9 mm
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"Our story begins one evening in June,when the sun sat like a huge orange ball suspended above the dark sea,spreading its pinky-orange glow over the little town of Trabzon. It was late,and soon the whole town would be blanketed by the soft bluey-blackness of a summer night."- from the book
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