Dead Sea live in the mountains surrounding the Dead Sea. Hikers can see ibex, hares, hyraxes, jackals, foxes, and even leopards. Hundreds of bird species inhabit the zone as well. Both Jordan and Israel have established nature reserves around the Dead Sea. The delta of the Jordan River was formerly a jungle of papyrus and palm trees. The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus described Jericho as "the most fertile spot in Judea". In Roman and Byzantine times, sugarcane, henna, and sycamore fig all made the lower Jordan valley wealthy. One of the most valuable products produced by Jericho was the sap of the
The Don Flows Home to the Sea with Aksinia, the wife of a neighbour, and how he fights for the Reds, the Whites, and the Partisans. Much of the novel used an earlier, unpublished story Sholokhov wrote in 1925 about the Kornilov affair. The Don Flows Home to the Sea The Don Flows Home to the Sea (1940) is the second in the series of the great Don epic ("Tikhii Don") written by Mikhail Sholokhov. It originally appeared in serialized form between 1928 and 1940. The English translation of the second half of this monumental work appeared under this title in 1940. The novel follows the fortunes