The Ship of Ishtar
6h 4m
72,693 words
en
The Ship of Ishtar, published in 1924, is widely regarded as Abraham Merritt's finest novel. John Dorvington, an American archaeologist, discovers a miniature ship inside an ancient Babylonian block of stone. Touching it transports him to a full-sized vessel sailing an otherworldly sea, crewed by the servants of two warring gods. Merritt's richly imagined Babylonian mythology, combined with his gift for exotic description and headlong narrative, makes this one of the great fantasy adventures — a precursor to the sword-and-sorcery tradition that would follow.
