| Description |
xxi, 214 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 cm. |
| Series |
Puffin classics.
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| Note |
Originally published: Bodley Head, 1967. |
| Contents |
Ra and his children -- Isis and Osiris -- Horus the avenger -- Khnemu of the Nile -- The great Queen Hatshepsut -- The prince and the sphinx -- The princess and the demon -- The golden lotus -- Teta the magician -- The book of Thoth -- Se-Osiris and the sealed letter -- The land of the dead -- The tale of the two brothers -- The story of the shipwrecked sailor -- The adventures of Sinube -- The peasant and the workman -- The taking of Joppa -- The story of the Greek princess -- The treasure thief -- The girl with the rose-red slippers. |
| Summary |
Retells twenty stories of magic, adventure, and mythology first told in ancient Egypt. |
| Subject |
Mythology, Egyptian -- Juvenile literature.
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Folklore -- Egypt.
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Mythology, Egyptian. |
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Tales. |
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Folklore -- Egypt. |
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Egypt. |
| Genre |
Juvenile works.
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| Added Author |
Copley, Heather, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9780141332598 (pbk.) |
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014133259X (pbk.) |
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