The Treasure of the Tigris: A Tale of Mesopotamia

The Treasure of the Tigris is a historical novel about Walter Henderson's recollections of his uncle's tales of Babylonian history. Excerpt: «First of all, I must explain how it happened that I, Walter Henderson, whom, I have every reason to believe, my masters regarded as a very ordinary kind of boy, should have blossomed within a couple of years of leaving school into a person of some importance…»