Elizabeth Peters Amelia Peabody Egyptology Novels
Sept 11, 2016 20:00:25 GMT -5
Post by hawkbrother on Sept 11, 2016 20:00:25 GMT -5
I highly recommend this series. Had read a couple of them some time ago but now have been reading them in order starting with The Crocodile On The Sandbank.
The author has a Ph.D in Egyptology from the University of Chicago and really knows the subject. Some real life Egyptologists appear as characters in the book, such as E.A. Wallis Budge and Flinders Petrie.
Amelia is certainly an original character, don't know if she is based on a real female Egyptologist from the past.
But her husband Radcliffe Emerson is obviously modeled after Arthur Conan Doyle's Professor Challenge of The Lost World fame. And Peters makes reference to other Doyle characters in the series. And an archeologist in the second book Curse of the Pharoah is named Baskerville!
Amelia speaks of enjoying H. Rider Haggard, and indeed this series has a feel of Haggard's writing, set as it is in the Egypt of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a time when the British Empire appeared almost invincible.
And they also remind me of Sax Rohmer's books, who did write some works with an Egyptian setting. Certainly features like curses, malevolent mummies and Sethos the Master Criminal are very Rohmer like.
I should think any Howard fan would enjoy these if like me they are into archeology, ancient civilizations, lost civilizations, and the like.
The author has a Ph.D in Egyptology from the University of Chicago and really knows the subject. Some real life Egyptologists appear as characters in the book, such as E.A. Wallis Budge and Flinders Petrie.
Amelia is certainly an original character, don't know if she is based on a real female Egyptologist from the past.
But her husband Radcliffe Emerson is obviously modeled after Arthur Conan Doyle's Professor Challenge of The Lost World fame. And Peters makes reference to other Doyle characters in the series. And an archeologist in the second book Curse of the Pharoah is named Baskerville!
Amelia speaks of enjoying H. Rider Haggard, and indeed this series has a feel of Haggard's writing, set as it is in the Egypt of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a time when the British Empire appeared almost invincible.
And they also remind me of Sax Rohmer's books, who did write some works with an Egyptian setting. Certainly features like curses, malevolent mummies and Sethos the Master Criminal are very Rohmer like.
I should think any Howard fan would enjoy these if like me they are into archeology, ancient civilizations, lost civilizations, and the like.