"Sindbad le marin... C'est sans doute avec Aladin et Ali Baba, le personnage le plus connu des Mille et une nuits. Mais les contes sont intemporels et les aventures de cet Ulysse oriental continuent ...
Sinbad the Sailor (/ ˈsɪnbæd /; Arabic: سندباد البحري, romanized: Sindibādu l-Bahriyy lit. 'Sindibād of the Sea') is a fictional mariner and the hero of a story-cycle. He is described as hailing from Baghdad during the early Abbasid Caliphate (8th and 9th centuries CE).
Sindbad the Sailor, hero of The Thousand and One Nights who recounts his adventures on seven voyages. He is not to be confused with Sindbad the Wise, hero of the frame story of the Seven Wise Masters.
The Story of Sindbad the Sailor has been told in many versions, with slight variations in title and detail. Sometimes his name is spelled differently: The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor.
The Story of Sindbad the Sailor by Arabian Nights | Full Text
Some believe that Sindbad was a composite of historical figures or merchants and sea captain who sailed in the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean between the 8th and 11the centuries. Some say he was born in Oman. Sindbad took seven voyages. He endured shipwrecks, cannibalism, near starvation, and attacks by monsters, apes and giant birds and serpents.
This Sindbad the Sailor has a story to tell—the story of his life—but he never told it to any until, one day, there came to him one Sindbad the Landsman, a man of poor and humble birth.
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