The Sleeper in the Sands
by Tom Holland
Egypt, 1922: the Valley of the Kings. After years of fruitless labour, the archaeologist Howard Carter exposes a flight of stone steps. They lead him to the doorway of a mysterious tomb, sealed and marked with a terrible curse. 'Death,' Carter reads, 'shall come on swift wings, to whosoever toucheth the tomb of the Pharaoh'. But what is the nature of the tomb's deadly secret? And what is the web of strange connections which reaches millennia, to the very heart of Egypt's fabulous past?
In THE SLEEPER IN THE SANDS, Tom Holland brings his unique storytelling powers and impeccable research to the most mesmerising of all Egypt's stories. Howard Carter reveals the truth behind his thirty-year-old quest for the buried Tut-ankh-Amen. In medieval Cairo, a psychotic caliph orders an unwilling sage to discover the key to immortality. And in Ancient Thebes, Akh-en-Aten, most enigmatic and tragic of the Pharaohs, seeks to purge his realm of a terrible darkness, and gain salvation in the arms of the beautiful Nefertiti.
Literature & FictionContemporary
RELEASED1998
PUBLISHERLittle, Brown
LENGTH372
LANGUAGEEN
Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. He is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award in 2006; Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, a panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000; In the Shadow of the Sword, which covers the collapse of Roman and Persian power in the Near East, and the emergence of Islam; and Dynasty, a portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty.
The Sleeper in the Sands
by Tom Holland
Egypt, 1922: the Valley of the Kings. After years of fruitless labour, the archaeologist Howard Carter exposes a flight of stone steps. They lead him to the doorway of a mysterious tomb, sealed and marked with a terrible curse. 'Death,' Carter reads, 'shall come on swift wings, to whosoever toucheth the tomb of the Pharaoh'. But what is the nature of the tomb's deadly secret? And what is the web of strange connections which reaches millennia, to the very heart of Egypt's fabulous past?
In THE SLEEPER IN THE SANDS, Tom Holland brings his unique storytelling powers and impeccable research to the most mesmerising of all Egypt's stories. Howard Carter reveals the truth behind his thirty-year-old quest for the buried Tut-ankh-Amen. In medieval Cairo, a psychotic caliph orders an unwilling sage to discover the key to immortality. And in Ancient Thebes, Akh-en-Aten, most enigmatic and tragic of the Pharaohs, seeks to purge his realm of a terrible darkness, and gain salvation in the arms of the beautiful Nefertiti.
Literature & FictionContemporary
RELEASED1998
PUBLISHERLittle, Brown
LENGTH372
LANGUAGEEN
Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. He is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award in 2006; Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, a panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000; In the Shadow of the Sword, which covers the collapse of Roman and Persian power in the Near East, and the emergence of Islam; and Dynasty, a portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty.
