Amelia Peabody's Egypt

I bought this as a gift for a young lady who shares my interest in Egyptology and has several of the Amelia Peabody novels. This book is aimed toward people, places and events in the novel series. I glanced through the text, then spent hours reading the descriptions which accompany vintage photographs from The Early Days (i.e. pre-Zahi Hawass) Egyptology discoveries. I have to order another copy to give as a gift, after all,... Read Full Review

Being a huge fan of Elizabeth Peters and her Amelia Peabody series, I had to buy the Compendium. From the very first, as I read the so called lost journal pages of Emerson and his view of his first meeting with Amelia I was hooked. I had always been interested in ancient history and thanks to the Peabody series I have gotten to enjoy the golden age of Egyptology and the men and women who helped to uncover Egypt's ancient... Read Full Review

AMELIA PEABODY'S EGYPT: A COMPENDIUM is a collection of articles about Egypt and Victorian culture, 19th century Egyptian history, early archeology, and a comprehensive listing of places and people (both fictional and historical) that are listed in the growing collection of Amelia Peabody historical mysteries. The compendium also includes a huge number of period photographs and etchings that depict Egypt and archeological... Read Full Review

Egyptologists and readers of the long running Peabody series (mid 1970s) will appreciate this volume that provides deep insight into the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a period of archeological activity that shed a light on the country's glorious heritage. The compilation takes the audience on tours of Cairo at the turn of the previous century and even more incredibly, a deep look while accompanying some of the... Read Full Review

I bought this book as soon as I was able to get my hands on it, as I have been a devout follower of the Emmersons since Crocodile on the Sandbank. I was so pleased to find a compendium of the people, places and foreign words/terms that I have come across in the series. Some people and places, when alluded to in sequals, left me at a loss as I had forgetten them. No need to worry about any of that anymore as now we just... Read Full Review