"Le Periple de Baldassare", translated from the French, a historical novel by the Lebanese author Amin Maalouf. The story is about the journey of a bookseller named Balthasar, seeking a sacred book which may contain the 100th name of God. Taking place in 1666 (the "year of the Apocalypse", the travels are through the Ottoman Empire, to Italy and London. From / Alkitab