The Alchemist

The Alchemist
This book is about Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids and leaves his homeland-Spain, to literally follow his dreams.
"When you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." This is proved by the various spiritual messengers that he encounters along this journey in unassuming forms - a king, a camel driver, an Englishman, and finally the alchemist.An alchemists are men who believe that if a metal were heated for many years,it would free itself of all its individual properties , and what was left would...