Barth John. The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor

New York: Anchor, 1992. — 573 p. — ISBN10: 0385422202; ISBN13: 978-0385422208.The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor is a postmodern metafictional story of a man who jumps overboard a modern replica of a medieval Arab ship and is rescued by sailors from the world of Sinbad the Sailor. Eventually he makes his way to "Baghdad, the City of Peace", and finds himself in the stories of Sindbad and Scheherazade. The novel makes use of a challenging double-stranded narrative and a rich prose style.