Before he became the legend, he was just a boy who could talk to fish.
In a drought-stricken town on the banks of a dying river in old Baghdad, young Sind spends his nights beside his grandmother's fire, listening to her improvised tales of the Thousand and One Nights. But when a talking fish reveals a secret only he can hear, Sind is pulled into a quest no storyteller ever wrote: seven golden pearls, a sapphire, and an emerald — the only cure for a river that has forgotten how to flow.
His search will carry him from the alleys of Baghdad to the open sea, aboard a ship bound through pirate-haunted straits, into the court of a sultan, and into the shadow of a bird large enough to blot out the sun. Somewhere between a jinn trapped in a jar and a merchant with secrets of his own, the boy who spoke to animals will become the man the world will call Sindbad.
Sindbad, Book One: The First Voyage is a lush, fast-moving reimagining of one of the most beloved cycles in world literature — perfect for readers of retold myths and epic voyages, and for anyone who ever wanted the story to keep going a little longer.
