5th Sentence Meme

Merely echoing the 5th Sentence Meme from No Third Solution.

Grab the nearest book.

1. Open it to page 161.
2. Find the fifth full sentence.
3. Post the text of the sentence along with these instructions.

Don’t search around looking for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.

Here goes:

"An early medieval Arab traveller describing to his readers the wonders of the mysterious land of China, has a strange tale to tell."

The sentence is from "The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 years"