Sinbad the Sailor by Phil Masters

Author:Phil Masters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sinbad the Sailor
ISBN: 9781472806154
Publisher: Osprey Publishing

Sinbad has just escaped after being buried alive in a cave-tomb, finding a tunnel out to an otherwise inaccessible beach. He has sighted a passing ship and attracted the crew’s attention, and the crew have sent a boat to pick him up. Fortunately, perhaps, they do not recognize that the clothes he is wearing, and the bundles he is carrying, are actually burial shrouds – despite the fact that they are the white colour typical of funerary garb from the region.

Sinbad is well into his 30s by now, but he has just had a terrifying, dangerous, and brutal experience, which has forced him to act as a ruthless killer, so he is looking gaunt and haunted. Once again, the depiction of the ship here is based on modern attempts to reconstruct a 9th-century Arab merchant dhow. One important feature is that it is assembled entirely without metal nails or bolts; the planks are literally sewn together and attached to the frame and keel with thick coconut-fibre cords.

I gave alms to the poor and lived in luxury, and time brought me relief from nightmares. My ability to forget the terrors of my travels saved my sanity, but once again it allowed my desire to travel the world to take control of me, so that even this was not my last voyage ... But that is tomorrow’s tale.

Then Sinbad the Sailor had a fine meal set before his guests, and gave another gift of one hundred dinars to Sinbad the Porter, who returned to his modest home, wondering at what he had heard.

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