| A King of Tyre: A Tale of the Times of Ezra and Nehemiah Contributor(s): Ludlow, James M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1979844534 ISBN-13: 9781979844536 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $11.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Fantasy - General |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.59 lbs) 196 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The island city of Tyre lay close to the Syrian coast. It seemed to float among the waves that fretted themselves into foam as they rolled in between the jagged rocks, and spread over the flats, retiring again to rest in the deep bosom of the Mediterranean. The wall that encircled the island rose in places a hundred cubits, and seemed from a distance to be an enormous monolith. It was therefore called Tsur, or Tyre, which means The Rock. At the time of our narrative, about the middle of the fifth century B.C., the sea-girt city contained a dense mass of inhabitants, who lived in tall wooden houses of many stories; for the ground space within the walls could not lodge the multitude who pursued the various arts and commerce for which the Tyrians were, of all the world, the most noted. The streets were narrow, often entirely closed to the sky by projecting balconies and arcades-mere veins and arteries for the circulation of the city's throbbing life. |
