Highlights of the book from Echoes from the Past

If you want to know: the "joys" and "pleasures" of traveling with five children; why tourists wear shoes without socks; the charms of Toledo, Spain; about monks robbing other monks; how the Arabs went to Spain; the secret of the enchanted tower; the Alhambra, the Great Mosque at Cordoba, and the people who built them; the Moorish legacy; the reality behind the romantic facade and bullfighting; about the real El Cid, national hero of Spain, described as "the miracle of God"; the fashion arbiter of ninth century Andalusia; who invented writing; who were the Sumerians, Assyrians, Babylonians and Chaldeans; who was the first "Noah"; who formulated the first legal codes and moral ideals, wrote the first love songand the first lullaby; about "the lady of the rib"; sacred marriage rite; about lion hunting; the splendour of the city of Babylon; the greatness of the Mesopotamians and their gourmet delicacy, Echoes from the Past, by Rachel Hajar, has all these and much more interesting, little known, historical "trivia". 

Echoes from the Past Rachel Hajar
Vantage Pr
1995
533109167
9.78053E+12
CT 34 E9 1995
Nonfiction ; Biography ; Literary journeys