The Prince of Omeya Author:Anthony Fon Elsen Roused in the night by an urgent warning, Abderahman, last survivor of the Ommiad dynasty, leaves Damascus on a swift white mare for the vast desert wastes. Although he finds sanctuary with a Bedouin tribe and meets the lovely shepherdess, Alohra, his brief idyll is shattered by betrayal. Once again he flees, in a last, deperate race across the ... more »thousands of miles of African desert, a race which leaves both horse and rider more dead than alive, the young prince reaches Spain, where he fulfills a gypsy prophesy that he will lead his people to glory.« less