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The Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor

By One Thousand and One NightsAges 9-12About 10 minutes

Sinbad lands on an island that turns out to be a sleeping turtle, flies on the great bird Rukh and brings home only three bright stones.

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How it begins

In the crowded harbour of Basra there stood a wooden trading ship ready to put out to sea. Sinbad, a young sailor, signed on to her crew that morning. The ship's old captain, Kaptan Reis, came up on deck counting off the list of the cargo.

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