Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights - Softcover

`Gibbon should emerge as what he surely is, the greatest British regional novelist in the 20thC.' London Review of Books; Reviews scheduled for TLS, Observer, Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, LRB; BBC Radio series of Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights scheduled for October; BBC TV documentary on Lewis Grassic Gibbon's life due Autumn 1997

Far removed from the recognisable Scottish and rural themes of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's best known works, Persisan Dawn, Egyptian Nights, (first published in the 1930s), gives full reign to Gibbon's fascination with the fantastic and exotic following his military service in the Far East. In this collection we encounter a sorcerer on a quest for Life's lost constituent; a hunt for the last Neanderthal man; we watch a strange drama being played out in the Garden of Eden; and read how a Bishop inverted a famous text to save his own soul.