Author: Justin Somper
Publisher: Usborne Books
Published: 2001-12
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780794501396
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →EACH BOOK IN THIS EXCITING SERIES CONTAINS A THRILLING ADVENTURE STORY, PACKED WITH ENTERTAINING PUZZLES TO SOLVE. THERE ARE EXTRA CLUES TO HELP YOU IF YOU GET STUCK ALONG THE WAY AND ANSWERS AT THE BACK OF EACH BOOK. JAZ AND GUSTO'S TRIP TO EGYPT TAKES AN UNEXPECTED TURN WHEN THEY STUMBLE UPON A BUNCH OF CROOKS AND AN ANCIENT TREASURE TRAIL. THEIR SEARCH LEADS THEM ON A PERILOUS ADVENTURE OF MYSTERY AND SABOTAGE AS GUSTO AND JAZ STRUGGLE TO OUTWIT THE SUSPICIOUS IONA FORTUNE, UNRAVEL THE RIDDLE OF THE STRANGE SYMBOLS AND FINALLY DISCOVER THE SECRET OF THE PYRAMID PLOT ITSELF.
Author: Ismail Kadare
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-11-21
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1628723580
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Egypt in the twenty-sixth century BC. The young pharaoh Cheops wants to forgo the construction of a pyramid in his honor, but his court sages hasten to persuade him otherwise. The pyramid, they tell him, is not a tomb but a paradox, designed to appease the masses by oppressing them. It is a symbol of nothing, a useless and infinite project designed to waste the country’s wealth and keep security and prosperity, ever the fonts of sedition, constantly at bay. And so the greatest pyramid in the world has ever seen begins to rise. Rumors multiply. A secret police is formed. Conspiracies—real and imagined—swirl around the rising edifice. The most drastic purges follow. By the time the first stone is laid, Cheops’s subjects are terrified enough to yield to his most murderous whims. Each time one of the massive stones is hoisted into place, dozens of men are crushed, and there are tens of thousands of stones. . . .
Author: Terry Deary
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2005-09
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9781404812734
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A clever trick saves the workers who are building the Great Pyramid from being punished, and their working conditions are improved as well.
Author: J. Somper
Publisher: Usborne
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781580866767
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Golding
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0571309186
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Follow young Oliver's rebellious coming-of-age in the village of Stillbourne in this comic novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies. Eighteen is a good time for suffering Welcome to the country town of Stillbourne. Restless teenage resident Oliver wants to enjoy himself before going to university, beginning with his pursuit of the Town Crier's daughter. But in this claustrophobic community - stifled by the English class system, and where everybody knows everyone's business - love, lust and rebellion are closely followed by revenge and embarrassment . . . 'Golding depicts with subtle skill all the pains of growing up and growing old. He treats us to some superb comic episodes.' Daily Telegraph 'Golding's most approachable novel and a curiously personal one, that returns to the mind again and again as if the shames and idylls were one's own.' Guardian 'Neatly drawn, funny and touching . . . The snap, the tang, and the tension in Golding's prose is always a pleasure.' Harper's
Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0552152641
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It isn't easy being a teenage pharaoh, having to deal with assassins, sphinxes, mad high priests, gods, sacred crocodiles and marching mummies. And all you really want is the chance to do something for young people and the inner cities.
Author: Justin Somper
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781868392728
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Macaulay
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1982-04-26
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 0547348398
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“The mystery of the pyramids is solved before our eyes” in this illustrated YA guide to their construction by the Caldecott Medal-winning author (Kirkus). In Pyramid, acclaimed author and illustrator David Macaulay explores the construction of ancient Egyptian pyramids from the initial planning stages to the methods used to lift stones up to the structure’s highest level. Through concise text and richly detailed black and white illustrations your readers are introduced not only to ancient Egyptian engineering, tools, and labor practices, but also the philosophy of life, death, and afterlife that made these awe-inspiring monuments necessary as a pharaoh’s final resting place. "Macaulay's brilliant Pyramid shows, detail by detail, how the great pharaohs' burial places were conceived and constructed… His draftsmanship is unexcelled, and his book is pharaonic in opulence and design."—Time