{"product_id":"sinai-tapestry-by-edward-whittemore-1","title":"Sinai Tapestry by Edward Whittemore","description":"\u003cp\u003eSinai Tapestry, the brilliant first novel of the Jerusalem Quartet,is an epic alternate history of the Middle East in which the discovery of the original Bible links a disparate group of remarkable people across time and space\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1840, Plantagenet Strongbow, the twenty-ninth Duke of Dorset, seven-feet-seven-inches tall and the greatest swordsman and botanist of Victorian England, walks away from the family estate and disappears into the Sinai Desert carrying only a large magnifying glass and a portable sundial. He emerges forty years later as an Arab holy man and anthropologist, now the author of a massive study of Levantine sex—and the secret owner of the Ottoman Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Skanderbeg Wallenstein has discovered the original Bible, lost on a dusty bookshelf in the monastery library. To his amazement, it defies every truth held by the three major religions. Nearly a century later, Haj Harun, an antiquities dealer who has acted as guardian of the Holy City for three thousand years, uncovers the hidden Bible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSinai Tapestry is the first volume of the Jerusalem Quartet, which continues with Jerusalem Poker, Nile Shadows,and Jericho Mosaic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43718657933386,"sku":"6783aq","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6783aq_076187d8-17b1-4537-a60e-516cd521adc4.jpg?v=1781765182","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/sinai-tapestry-by-edward-whittemore-1","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}