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The Sleeper in the Sands

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Hachette Digital, Inc., Nov 1, 1999 - Fiction - 448 pages
In Egypt in 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter exposes a flight of stone steps leading to a mysterious tomb sealed and marked with a terrible curse. What is the nature of the tomb's deadly secret? And what is the web of connections reaching back to the very heart of Egypt's past?
  

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Review: The Sleeper in the Sands

User Review  - Phil Evans - Goodreads

I enjoyed this in bursts, and maybe my lack of enjoyment was because I got the genre wrong in my head, I'm not sure. Basically, the book starts with an archaeologist finding a tomb he's been seeking ... Read full review

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User Review  - Wendy Parkinson - Goodreads

It probably serves me right for not researching this before reading, but it wasn't at all what I expected. I decided to try it because I enjoy Tom Holland's serious history books and was expecting a ... Read full review

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Contents

CONTENTS
15
THE TALE OF THE SLEEPER IN THE SANDS
23
THE TALE OF THE OPENED TOMB
395
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
420
AUTHORS NOTE
427
Copyright

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The Sleeper in the Sands
The Sleeper in the Sands
Tom Holland
No preview available - 1998
The Sleeper in the Sands
The Sleeper in the Sands
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Common terms and phrases

Ahmed Allah Amen ancient answered appeared arms asked Aten beauty began beneath blood bowed breathed in deeply Cairo Caliph Carter corpse cried darkness death demon discovered door doorway dread dream dust Egypt Egyptology exclaimed eyes face father fear felt frowned Gaston Maspero gazed ghools glanced gold grew guard hand Harim Haroun heard High Priest horror Howard Carter imagined Inen inspected Isis Jinn Joseph King Akh-en-Aten King Amen-hetep King Ay King Thoth-mes kissed Kiya knew Lady Evelyn laughed Lilatt-ah lions lips looked Lord Carnarvon magic minaret mosque mummy mystery Nefer-titi never Newberry night Nile nodded once Osiris Palace paused Petrie Pharaoh Prince reached realised rose sands screamed secret seemed shadows shook his head shrugged silence sister smiled sought stare stood strange sudden suddenly tale tell temple Thebes Theodore Davis thing thought told tomb turned Tut-ankh-Amen Valley wall watched whispered wonder Yuya

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Akhenaten: History, Fantasy, and Ancient Egypt
Akhenaten: History, Fantasy, and Ancient Egypt
Dominic Montserrat
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Akhenaten: History, Fantasy, and Ancient Egypt
Akhenaten: History, Fantasy, and Ancient Egypt
Dominic Montserrat
No preview available - 2000

References from web pages

Tom Holland interview - infinity plus non-fiction
"The new book - The Sleeper in the Sands - is a logical development from my ... And he had other plans for The Sleeper in the Sands: "Also I wanted the ...
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The SF Site: An Interview With Tom Holland
He has also written Deliver us from Evil, a Gothic horror novel set in the English Restoration period, and The Sleeper in the Sands a horror tale spanning ...
www.sfsite.com/ 07a/ th60.htm

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The sleeper in the sands /. by Holland, Tom. View full image. London : Little, Brown, 1998. Subjects, Pharaohs -- Fiction. Egypt -- Fiction. ...
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Akhenaton: Biography and Much More from Answers.com
Holland, Tom, The Sleeper in the Sands (novel), (Abacus, 1998, ISBN 0-349-11223-1), a fictionalised adventure story based closely on the mysteries of ...
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About the author (1999)

TOM HOLLAND gained the top degree at Cambridge before earning his Ph.D. at Oxford. An accomplished radio personality in Britain, he has written a highly acclaimed series of adaptations for Radio 4 of Herodotus's "Histories" and Virgil's "Aeneid," to be followed by Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey," and is the author of the novels "The Bone Hunter," "Slave of My Thirst," and "Lord of the Dead,

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TitleThe Sleeper in the Sands
AuthorTom Holland
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherHachette Digital, Inc., 1999
ISBN0349112231, 9780349112237
Length448 pages
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