The Hidden Oasis Free Download PDF By Paul Sussman
| Title | : | The Hidden Oasis |
| Author | : | Paul Sussman |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 544 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0593058461 |
The Hidden Oasis opens in 2152 BC with eighty priests setting out under cover of darkness into Egypt s Western Desert, dragging with them a sled on which rests a mysterious object swathed in cloth Four weeks later, having reached their destination, the priests calmly slit each other s throats Four thousand years later in present day Egypt, professional rock climber Fr The Hidden Oasis opens in 2152 BC with eighty priests setting out under cover of darkness into Egypt s Western Desert, dragging with them a sled on which rests a mysterious object swathed in cloth Four weeks later, having reached their destination, the priests calmly slit each other s throats Four thousand years later in present day Egypt, professional rock climber Freya Hannen arrives for the funeral of her sister, Alex, a Saharan explorer From the outset Freya is suspicious of claims that Alex had taken her own life, and sets out to uncover what really happened to her sibling In her quest for the truth Freya joins forces with Alex s friend, English academic Flin Brodie, a world authority on the prehistory of the Sahara Flin is also searching for answers he has devoted his career to tracking down a mythic hidden oasis, an Atlantis of the sands that is reputedly the final resting place of an iconic stone with extraordinary powers the fabled Benben In this thriller, we follow Flin and Freya on an adventure that takes them from the towering rock walls of Yosemite National Park to the teeming backstreets of Cairo, from the spectacular temples of the Nile Valley to the arid, unforgiving wastes of the Western Desert The journey is sometimes violent, often dangerous, frequently surprising, and invariably riveting At stake are not simply the answer to one of archaeology s greatest mysteries the location of the legendary lost oasis of Zerzura but also the key to the astonishing, terrifying secret that lies at the oasis s heart
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He was educated at Merchant Taylors School and St John s College, Cambridge, where he won a Joseph Larmor Award and a boxing blue His novels have been translated into 33 languages and are set mainly in Egypt, where he worked for many years as a field archaeologist, notably with the Amarna Royal Tombs Project in the Valley of the Kings Among other finds, he unearthed the only items of pharaonic He was educated at Merchant Taylors School and St John s College, Cambridge, where he won a Joseph Larmor Award and a boxing blue His novels have been translated into 33 languages and are set mainly in Egypt, where he worked for many years as a field archaeologist, notably with the Amarna Royal Tombs Project in the Valley of the Kings Among other finds, he unearthed the only items of pharaonic jewellery to have been excavated in the Valley since the discovery of Tutankhamun in 1922 As a journalist he was a long time contributor to the The Big Issue, where he won a Periodical Publishers Association Columnist of the Year Award for his satirical In The News column He has also written for, among others, The Independent, The Guardian, The Evening Standard, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, Cosmopolitan and CNN.com.On 31st May 2012, Paul Sussman died suddenly from a ruptured aneurysm, leaving a wife and two sons.http en.wikipedia.org wiki Paul_Sus 
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The Hidden Oasis opens in 2152 BC with eighty priests setting out under cover of darkness into Egypt s Western Desert, dragging with them a sled on wh
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