Fatima is a young woman whose life seems beset by one disaster after another.
It is only here that Fatima finally realizes that what seemed to be disasters were really essentia.
Undertaking a journey to sell the masts, her ship is wrecked off the coast of China.
Adopted by a family of weavers, and beginning to prosper in her new life, she is captured and made to work making masts.
Setting forth on a journey from her home in the West, she is shipwrecked and cast ashore alone near Alexandria.
Fatima is a young woman whose life seems beset by one disaster after another