Longman Classic Stage 1 – Adventures of Sindbad the Sailor

Sindbad the Sailor lived in Baghdad in the time of the great Khalif, Harun al-Rashid.

Sindbad was a very rich man. He had a beautiful house in the best part of the city. And when the sun was hot in the afternoon, he and his friends sat under the trees in the garden.

“I am rich,” he told his friends, “But I haven’t always been rich. I have been very poor, often unhappy, and very often afraid. I was very much afraid on my first voyage. I’ll tell you about it.”