Crocodile on the Sandbank - UNABRIDGED on CDS
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.27 (541 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1402577265 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 202 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
the bug lady said Great Fun !. These are a great series of books.The are set in the Victorian era, written in the person of Amelia Peabody. Witty repartee between Emerson and Peabody. This is the first of the series. I have now read The Curse of the Pharaohs and The Mummy Case. The violence is truly negligible, but after all, they are murder mysteries. The sexual content is referred too charmingly. The Emerson family and their acquaintances are a bit off kilter, but so likable.Great reading for anyone who is tired of all the graphic descriptions in books so many writers feel they need to. Still My All-Time Favorite Series of Books! I have read and re-read this entire series many times. This time around I get to share the story of Amelia and Emerson with my kids as our family read-aloud choice. The result? They LOVE the characters as much as I do! They cheered, laughed aloud and have even begun to incorporate 'Peabody-isms' into conversation.We are a homeschool family and appreciate books that start conversations on a variety of topics, even for books we choose mostly for fun. This book started conversations on morality, Middle Eastern culture, development of women's rights, Muslim rel. Strong personalities and nice look at early Egyptology with a reasonable mystery with the mummy. Amelia Peabody is a self possessed woman with independent means and a sharp mind. Upon the death of her father she decides to travel to all the places that he had studied and finds an English woman in distress in Rome. Evelyn is quickly adopted as traveling companion and the two set off for Egypt. Evelyn having been recently abandoned by an unscrupulous tutor she intended to elope with. The two women find themselves at a dig at Amarna with two archaeologist brothers and a mummy of the walking variety. Strong personalities and nice look at early Egyptology w
That's just when an unexpected distraction drops, more or less, at Amelia's feet. Promptly upon her father's death, Amelia takes ship for Cairo. What happens next makes for a delicious mystery and pyramids of fun. Amelia Peabody, 32-year-old Victorian gentlewoman, inherited two things from her father: a considerable fortune and an unbendable will. (9 compact discs/10 hours). The first was indispensible in allowing her to indulge in her life's passion: Egyptology. But her companion, Miss Pritchett, succumbs to typhoid in Rome -- weakminded female that she is. Without the second, the mummy's curse would have made corpses of them all