The Caravanserai Stories

<p><em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Eight strangers were clustered around the campfire of the caravanserai - silhouetted ragged and ripened by adventure. As the flames licked the darkness sparks spitting up into the nocturnal firmament the traveller dressed in red cleared his throat and told his tale...</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>And so starts </span><em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Jinn's Treasure</em><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> one of the eight extraordinary </span><em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Caravanserai Stories</em><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> - short tales </span>that take the reader on a journey of enchantment and delight.</p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Inspired by his Afghan grandfather's first book </span><em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Eastern Moonbeams</em><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> published a </span>century ago Tahir Shah's <em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>The Caravanserai Stories</em><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> are part of </span>the heritage of folklore of which <em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>The Thousand and One Nights</em><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> is a </span>foundation stone.</p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Shah says: 'Teaching stories such as these have been used throughout much of the world since the dawn of human society. Indeed teaching stories fables legends and wider folklore are like encoded documents of humanity - constituting a repository of knowledge amassed over millennia.'</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Regarded as one of the most important and prolific storytellers working today Tahir Shah's body of work comprises more than sixty books many of them containing tales and folklore gleaned from all corners of the world.</span></p><p><br></p>