{"product_id":"ten-thousand-scorpions-9780771047817","title":"Ten Thousand Scorpions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe desert tribes of Yemen call her Bilqis. In the high plateaus of Ethiopia, she is revered as Makeda. And in the fertile valleys of Anatolian Turkey, she is known as Saba Sultana. Who was the mysterious Queen of Sheba, and why has her legend survived for three thousand years - not least in accounts from both the Bible and the Koran?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1996, a geology team working for Chuck Fipke (the immensely colourful discoverer of the Etaki diamond mines in the Northwest Territories and the subject of the bestselling 1999 biography \u003ci\u003eFire into Ice\u003c\/i\u003e) was looking for gold deposits in the remote Yemeni desert. There they stumbled upon ancient mine tunnels. Were these primitive Iron Age ruins the source of Sheba’s gold?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Larry Frolick travelled with Fipke’s Cantex crew into the desert, seeking the truth of the legendary Queen. What he found there were not answers but more questions - questions that ultimately led him from Yemen to the Highlands of Ethiopia during L","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527434740055,"sku":"9780771047817","price":15.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780771047817.jpg?v=1731867826","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ten-thousand-scorpions-9780771047817","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}