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The Last Egyptian: A Romance of the Nile
An Egyptologist, a mysterious Egyptian claiming royal descent, and a cunning dragoman converge in Cairo where ancient secrets and modern schemes collide.
"The Last Egyptian: A Romance of the Nile" by L. Frank Baum is a novel. An Egyptologist, a mysterious Egyptian claiming royal descent, and a cunning dragoman converge in Cairo where ancient secrets and modern schemes collide.
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The sun fell hot upon the bosom of the Nile and clung there, vibrant, hesitating, yet aggressive, as if baffled in its desire to penetrate beneath the river’s lurid surface. For the Nile defies the sun, and relegates him to his own broad domain, wherein his power is undisputed.
On either side the broad stream humanity shrank from Ra’s seething disc. The shaduf workers had abandoned their skin-covered buckets and bamboo poles to seek shelter from the heat beneath a straggling tree or a straw mat elevated on stalks of ripe sugar-cane. The boats of the fishermen lay in little coves, where the sails were spread as awnings to shade their crews. The fellaheen laborers had all retired to their clay huts to sleep through this fiercest period of the afternoon heat.
Contents
- 01The Last Egyptian
- 02Contents
- 03Illustrations
- 04The Last Egyptian
- 05Chapter I. Where the Desert Meets the Nile.
- 06Chapter II. Hatatcha.
- 07Chapter III. The Dragoman.
- 08Chapter IV. The Treasure of Ahtka-Rā.
- 09Chapter V. A Roll of Papyrus.
- 10Chapter VI. Kāra Bathes in the Nile.
- 11Chapter VII. A Step Toward the Goal.
- 12Chapter VIII. His Grandmother’s Mummy.
- 13Chapter IX. Aneth.
- 14Chapter X. Lord Cromer’s Reception.
- 15Chapter XI. Setting the Snares.
- 16Chapter XII. Nephthys.
- 17Chapter XIII. The Talisman of Ahtka-Rā.
- 18Chapter XIV. Rogues Ancient and Modern.
- 19Chapter XV. Winston Bey Is Indignant.
- 20Chapter XVI. Kāra Threatens.
- 21Chapter XVII. Aneth Surrenders.
- 22Chapter XVIII. Finding a Way.
- 23Chapter XIX. The Abduction.
- 24Chapter XX. The Sheik Agrees.
- 25Chapter XXI. Lotus-Eaters and Crocodiles.
- 26Chapter XXII. The Dragoman’s Inspiration.
- 27Chapter XXIII. Mother and Daughter.
- 28Chapter XXIV. The Sheik Demurs.
- 29Chapter XXV. The Bronze Bolts.
- 30Chapter XXVI. The Dragoman Wins.
About this edition
- Author
- L. Frank Baum
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 215 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers