The Adventures of Akbar

ISBN-13: 9781421888323 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 188 str.

Flora A. Steel

Opis

Bismillah Al-la-hu Akbar! These queer-looking, queer-sounding words, which in Arabic mean "thanks be to God," were shrilled out at the very top of Head-nurses voice. Had she been in a room they would have filled it and echoed back from the walls; for she was a big, deep-chested woman. But she was only in a tent; a small tent, which had been pitched in a hurry in an out-of-the-way valley among the low hills that lead from the wide plains of India to Afghanistan. For Head-nurses master and mistress, King Humayon and Queen Humeeda, with their thirteen months old little son, Prince Akbar, were flying for their lives before their enemies. And these enemies were led by Humayons own brothers, Prince Kumran, Askurry and Hindal. It is a long story, and a sad story, too, how Humayon, so brave, so clever, so courteous, fell into misfortune by his own fault, and had to fly from his beautiful palaces at Delhi and wander for years, pursued like a hare, amid the sandy deserts and pathless plains of Western India.