Whispers In The Sand
by Barbara Erskine
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/as new
- ISBN 10
- 0670896500
- ISBN 13
- 9780670896509
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
This book is in "as new" condition. No wear to covers or dust jacket, no markings to inner pages. Spine intact, no creases. "Recently divorced, Anna decides to cheer herself up by retracing a journey her great grandmother made in the nineteenth century: a Nile cruise from Luxor to the Valley of the Kings. Anna carries with her on the voyage two mementoes of her great-grandmother Louisa: an ancient Egyptian scent bottle, and the diary of that original Nile cruise, which has lain unread for a hundred years. As she follows in Louisa's footsteps, Anna discovers in the diary the chilling secret of the scent bottle and is pursued by the same terrifying spectres as her great grandmother." Good Reads An historian by training, Barbara Erskine is the author of six bestselling novels that demonstrate her interest in both history and the supernatural, plus two collections of short stories. Her books have appeared in at least twenty different languages. She lives with her family in an ancient manor house near Colchester, and in a cottage near Hay-on-Wye.
Synopsis
Beautiful repackage of Barbara Erskine's bestseller set in richly mysterious Egypt, where past and present elide.Recently divorced, Anna decides to cheer herself up by retracing a journey her great grandmother made in the nineteenth century: a Nile cruise from Luxor to the Valley of the Kings.Anna carries with her on the voyage two mementoes of her great-grandmother Louisa: an ancient Egyptian scent bottle, and the diary of that original Nile cruise, which has lain unread for a hundred years. As she follows in Louisa's footsteps, Anna discovers in the diary the chilling secret of the scent bottle and is pursued by the same terrifying spectres as her great grandmother.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 685-2023
- Title
- Whispers In The Sand
- Author
- Barbara Erskine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- as new
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670896500
- ISBN 13
- 9780670896509
- Publisher
- Viking Canada (ahc)
- Date Published
- 2000-01
- Pages
- 401
- Size
- 23.8 cm x 16 cm
- Keywords
- Fiction, Historical, Thriller, Time Travel
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