"'Chock full of drama and passion... An excellent read set along the exotic Nile.' The Good Book Guide"

The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. Powerful. Irresponsible. Dangerous. It's 279 BC. and Ptolemy Philandelphus finds his wife ousted by his reptillian sister, who wants to marry him herself . . . A generation later, and Berenike Beta murders her husband and marries Ptolemy Euergetes instead. But with the glory of the Ptolemies at its height after Egypt wins victories at Syria, it is the turn of the murderess to be murdered.

Meanwhile, the people of Egypt are thinking about revolution . . .

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The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. and Ptolemy Philandelphus finds his wife ousted by his reptillian sister, who wants to marry him herself . But with the glory of the Ptolemies at its height after Egypt wins victories at Syria, it is the turn of the murderess to be murdered.

Meanwhile, the people of Egypt are thinking about revolution .

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Daughter of the Crocodile: Book 2 of the Ptolemies Quartet by Duncan Sprott is an ancient Egyptian novel spanning twelve generations of Pharaohs from the death of Alexander the Great to the fall of Cleopatra.
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Product details

ISBN
9780571226238
Published
2007-08-02
Publisher
Faber & Faber; Faber & Faber
Weight
390 gr
Height
197 mm
Width
127 mm
Thickness
30 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
496

Author

Biographical note

Duncan Sprott was born in 1952. He is the author of 1784, The Clopton Hercules, Our Lady of the Potatoes and The House of the Eagle. He lives in Ireland.