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The Visitors
Sally Beauman
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Description for The Visitors
Paperback. 'It's Death on the Nile meets Downton Abbey, as the action moves between Highclere Castle and Egypt's Valley of the Kings .. A gripping story touching on friendship, scholarship, love and family' Daily Mail Num Pages: 688 pages, Illustrated endpapers. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 32. Weight in Grams: 468.
It's Death on the Nile meets Downton Abbey, as the action moves between Highclere Castle and Egypt's Valley of the Kings . . . A gripping story touching on friendship, scholarship, love and family' Daily Mail
Based on a true story of discovery, The Visitors is New York Times bestselling author Sally Beauman's brilliant recreation of the hunt for Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings - a dazzling blend of fact and fiction that brings to life a lost world of exploration, adventure, and danger, and the audacious men willing to sacrifice everything to find a lost ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
Number of Pages
688
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780751551662
SKU
V9780751551662
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99-10
About Sally Beauman
Sally Beauman was born in Devon and graduated from Girton College, Cambridge. She began her career as a critic and writer for New York magazine and continued to write for leading periodicals in America and the UK after returning to England. In 1970 she was the first recipient of the Catherine Pakenham Award for her journalism, and at the age ... Read more
Reviews for The Visitors
[A] beautifully written novel, a tale of intertwined lives that is at once powerful and haunting. Beauman maintains the tension surrounding the tomb's discovery
The Times
The settings are glamorous and mysterious, the woman who dies in strange, unexplained circumstances is morally dubious and very beautiful, and there are real-life characters, such as Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, ... Read more
The Times
The settings are glamorous and mysterious, the woman who dies in strange, unexplained circumstances is morally dubious and very beautiful, and there are real-life characters, such as Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, ... Read more