Notes from the First Voyage
Collection of Sinbad's travels by Andrew Lang
(Image Source: Snappy Goat)
Plot Points
- Sinbad comes into a large sum of wealth by inheritance in the city of Baghdad
- He lives an affluent life until he decides that he is wasting his prime years on frivolities
- He plans on leaving for a long trading expedition in order to sell off much of his wealth to give to the poor
- He finds and hires a captain who takes him and a crew into the Persian Gulf where they rest on an island
- When making a fire on the island, it comes to life as they realize it was a sleeping whale
- In the ensuing madness, Sinbad is left behind by the crew and drifts aimlessly on the sea
- He comes ashore a new island where he is taken in by some horse herders
- Once the herders take him back to their capital, Sinbad makes acquaintance with other traders and finds his very own crew!
- Having been reunited, he sells those possessions which were his and gave many gifts to the king of the island
- He also told the king his story and, amazed at the tale, the king gives Sinbad many remarkable gifts in exchange which greatly multiply his wealth.
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