Bull Dancer Author:Barbara Korsness The year is 1938 B.C. Kira, a bull dancer of Crete, is injured in the bull ring and returns home. To keep a promise she made to her dying father, she must follow another path in life and teams up with her brother Niko to expand their family?s merchant business. She and Niko venture to many ancient seaports as well as Egypt and Mesopotamia. Kira ... more »finds Abraham, camped near the Dead Sea, to deliver a mysterious book meant for him. Traveling on to Babylon, Kira and Niko buy a boat and sail to Ubar, a city in southern Arabia that has the purest incense in the known world. It is worth more than gold. If they can establish a trade route from Ubar to the kingdoms of the north, they will become rich.« less