Valley of the Kings - Softcover

Holland, Cecelia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312868626 ISBN 13: 9780312868628

Verlag: St Martin's Press, 1999

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Book by Holland Cecelia

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"Cecelia Holland's novel "Valley of the Kings "deftly re-creates the Egypt of Howard Carter in the early 20th century as that single-minded archeologist searches for the tomb of King Tutankhamen.With Carter as her narrator, Holland describes the heat, dust, thievery and bureaucracy of the time. Her evocative prose is vivid and exotic allowing the reader to hear the buzz of tropical flies and feel as sweat-soaked as her characters."--"The Cleveland Plain Dealer""["Valley of the Kings]" is a must for Holland fans, and solid fare for everyone else."--"Publishers Weekly"

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It was a time of religious and political upheaval--the heretic Pharaoh Akhenten's religious reforms had been defeated by the power of the Priests of Amun, and the young boy King, Tutankhamun, had been placed on the throne. There was a famine in the land, and ongoing deadly intrigue in the Court as different factions maneuvered to gain control of Egypt. It ended in the mysterious death of the young king, and his hasty, secret burial. Nearly thirty-five hundred years later, in the 1920s, a young British archaeologist named Howard Carter becomes obsessed with finding Tutankamun's tomb. But he must struggle with more than the secretive nature of the ancient Egyptians--his world cannot go on without the approval of the modern Egyptian bureaucracy or without continued financial support from the British peer who is looking for treasure more than knowledge.

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• Verlag: St Martin's Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0312868626
• ISBN 13: 9780312868628
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240