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    The Hippopotamus Pool
    The Hippopotamus Pool
    The Hippopotamus Pool
    Audiobook14 hours

    The Hippopotamus Pool

    Written by Elizabeth Peters

    Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The spunky Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody Emerson has returned to the exotic Nile valley. Parasol aloft and hot on the trail of an unexplored tomb, she must outwit a shadowy evildoer, a questionable antiquities dealer, and her loquacious son, Ramses. Washington Post Book World praises Elizabeth Peters: "A writer so popular that the public library has to keep her books under lock and key."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 15, 2007
    ISBN9781440781520
    The Hippopotamus Pool
    Author

    Elizabeth Peters

    Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago’s famed Oriental Institute. During her fifty-year career, she wrote more than seventy novels and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She received numerous writing awards and, in 2012, was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen.

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    • 5/5
      A classic Amelia yarn;part parody,part romance,part mystery ...all fun. I love the books before the kids grow up. and the books take on a more serious tone. Barbara Goldblat is a superb reader.
    • 4/5
      I liked it but you need to be able to remember the characters from the earlier books.
    • 4/5
      More adventures with the Emerson's in Egypt. A lot happens while on their latest dig: Emerson's brother Walter and his wife Evelyn are on the scene and not as the happy couple we are used to, Ramses gets kidnapped - as well as Nefret - and Amelia and Emerson take on the criminal class of Luxor. All told with the usual humor these books are known for. Amelia's narration by Barbara Rosenblat is fabulous as ever. Great fun though the actual plot is a bit murky and forgettable.
    • 4/5
      Back to Egypt again for the entire Emerson clan. This time they take to the water as Emerson has bought Amelia's dahabeeyah from the first book, renaming her Amelia Peabody Emerson. They sail for Thebes, where they are joined by Walter and Evelyn, as Walter hopes to excavate a previously undiscovered tomb, which may be at risk from tomb robbers. The usual mayhem ensues, they encounter old friends and enemies, and by the end of the book it looks as if there may be at least one addition to the clan. Wonderful fun.
    • 4/5
      One of the best things about this book is the expanded cast of characters - Ramses and Nefret are old enough to be interesting, David is introduced, and Walter & Evelyn take up active roles in Egypt again. It makes for an interesting ensemble. Also fun is the fact that Emerson finally gets to make a major archeological discovery. Character interaction definitely makes this novel worth the read.
    • 5/5
      Number 8 in the Amelia Peabody's series - best read in order! Relationships among the Emerson family, and with their friends, deepen in this thrilling novel amid all sorts of mayhem as the Emersons find their most important archeological find yet. If you've enjoyed the series up to this point, The Hippopotamus Pool will not disappoint!