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  • Location: Cairo

The Glass Collector

2000s: There’s not many YA novels that introduce you to a particular time and place in world politics this well.

  • Location: Cairo, Valley of the Kings, Luxor

The Visitors

1922: If you’ve ever wanted to feel as you’re standing beside an iconic figure in history as he makes that history, then how about meeting…

  • Location: London, Adelaide, Cairo, Alexandria, Egypt

The Postcard

1930s, 2002: Because the idea of a postcard starting a journey seems like a forgotten and lost art.

  • Location: Aswan, Luxor, Valley of the Kings

Whispers of the Sand

1800s, 1900s: Retracing in the steps of her great grandmother who travelled across Egypt, a young woman meets up with the ghosts of the past..

  • Location: Aswan

The Twelve Rooms of the Nile

1849: Gustave Flaubert and Florence Nightingale each toured Egypt at exactly the same time back in 1849 and followed a nearly identical itinerary. They never…

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Babylonia

Ancient Assyria, 9th century BC:  The Queen who rose from nothing – and changed everything .

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