The Magician of SamarkandA smashing, fun, exciting adventure of good against evil in the rich and colourful setting of ancient India. Anahita is the beautiful, gentle daughter of the town's master saddlemaker. She and her family are poor but happy. Everyone loves her but the Prince particularly so, though both of them know that a match can never be she is poor and he a King's son. Anahita's happy life is disrupted when an evil, greedy magician moves into the town. He falls in

He falls in love with her beauty and wants her as his servant

exciting adventure of good against evil in the rich and colourful setting of ancient India

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