DOUGLAS , LLOYD C: - The Big Fisherman

Peter Davies 1949 First H/Back burgndy cloth boards VG 459pp endpaper maps.8 x 5 415g ¶ It was a calm, early summer noon in the southern mountains of Arabia. Sheltering the King's well-guarded domain, a mile above and a dozen miles east of the Dead Sea, motionless masses of neighbourly white clouds hung suspended from a remote blue ceiling.There had been an unusually heavy snowfall in the winter, not only upon the King's land but throughout the country. It was going to be a prosperous season for everybody. Intertribal jangling and discontent would be reduced to a minimum.