Collects traditional stories of Morocco that are recounted by an eccentric cast of characters: from master masons who work only at night to Sufi wise men who write for soap operas and Tuareg guides addicted to reality TV.[...]

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"Named one of "Time" magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year, Tahir Shah's The Caliph's House was hailed by critics and compared to such travel classics as "A Year in Provence" and "Under the Tuscan Sun." Now Shah takes us deeper into the "real" Casablanca to uncover mysteries hidden for centuri[...]

Amadeus Kaine is the most famous eye surgeon alive. And he's got a secret...a deep, dark, disturbing secret...He likes eating human eyes. Green eyes are his favorite. But any color will do. You'd better watch out because Dr. Kaine is coming. And he'll suck out your eyes and gobble them down. One of [...]

For more than a century Henry Rider Haggard's novel King Solomon's Mines has inspired generations of young men to set forth in search of adventure. But long before Rider Haggard's classic, explorers, theologians and scientists scoured the known world for the source of King Solomon's astonishing weal[...]

King Solomon, the Bible s wisest king, possessed extraordinary wealth. The grand temple he built in Jerusalem was covered in gold from the porch to the inner sanctum, where the Ark of the Covenant was kept. Long before H. Rider Haggard s classic adventure novel King Solomon s Mines unleashed gold fe[...]