英文名著--The Fifth Mountain - Paulo Coelho.pdfVIP

The Fifth Mountain The Fifth Mountain The Fifth Mountain Coelho, Paulo At the beginning of the year 870 B.C ., a nation known as Phoenicia, which the sraelites called Lebanon, had marked almost three centuries of peace. ts inhabitants could take pride in their accomplishments; because they were not politically powerful, they had developed an enviable skill at negotiation as the only means of assuring survival in a world beset by constant war. A n alliance made around the year 1000 B.C . with King Solomon of srael had allowed the modernization of its merchant fleet and the expansion of trade. Since that time, Phoenicia had never stopped growing. ts navigators had traveled to places as distant as Spain and the Atlantic Ocean, and there are theories—as yet unconfirmed—of their having left inscriptions in northeastern and southern Brazil. They carried glass, cedar, weapons, iron, and ivory. The inhabitants of the large cities such as Sidon, Tyre, and Byblos were familiar with numbers, astronomical calculations, the manufacture of wine, and for almost two hundred years had been using a set of characters for writing, which the Greeks knew as alphabet. At the beginning of the year 870 B.C., a council of war was meeting in a distant place called Nineveh. A group of Assyrian generals had decided to send troops to conquer the nations located along the Mediterranean coast. Phoenicia had been selected as the first country to be invaded. At the beginning of the year 870 B.C., two men hiding in a stable in Gilead, in srael, expected to die in the next few hours. “ HAV E SERV ED A LORD WHO NOW A BA NDONS ME NTO the hands of my enemies,” said Elijah. “God is God,” the Levite replied. “He did not tell Moses whether He was good or evil; He simply said: am. He is everything that exists