The Alchemist /
by Paulo Coelho.
- 1st ed.
- Collins : London, 1993.
- 177+5 p ; 18 cm.
Santiago, an Andalusion shepered boy, sets out from his home in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of buried treasure, but through his ebcounters with a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself a king, and an Alchemist, he learns the value of the treasures found within himself.