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  • Published 20131203
  • ISBN: 9781922079992
  • Extent: 264 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

And Lo! The Hunter of the East has caughtThe Sultan’s Turret in a Noose of Light.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám

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