Sinbad the sailor

Sinbad the Sailor - Arabian Nights - Edmund Dulac

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One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: ألف ليلة وليلة; Kitab alf laylah wa-laylah; also known in English as The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, The Arabian Nights and The Arabian Nights' Entertainment) is a collection of short stories connected by a framing device in which a woman, Scheherazade, saves herself from execution by telling a series of entertaining stories to a sultan. Some tales are embedded within other tales, a character in a story sometimes tells a story to another…

Drawing of Sinbad The Sailor.

SINBAD THE SAILOR, Attacker, Fable

Djinn, ghouls, erfit, oh my!

Designs for Sinbad the Bedouin and his compatriots for my retelling of the Sinbad the Sailor voyages. I aimed to create authentic 9th century period pieces, with a little bit of believable flair and highlighting the cultural interactions of the near to far east at the time.

"I spent such a peaceful time at home that the memory of all the hardships which I had endured faded from my mind, and I began to long for fresh adventures. I felt I was too young to sit quietly at home in idleness, so I made up my mind to buy more goods and set out on another voyage to trade, as I had done before. "The voyage began most prosperously. I sold my goods at every port, and I fancied I had escaped misfortune, when one day a terrible storm began to rage. We were driven out of our…

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