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Using subtle means of political power and economic control, a foreign power known as the "Rulers of the Upland" has taken over Egypt to plunder its riches and eradicate its religion and culture. In "The Hippopotamus Marsh", the stunning first volume of Pauline Gedge's Lords of the Two Lands trilogy, the family of the last true King of Egypt chose to end 200 years of submission to King Apepa, and attempted to resurrect a dynasty, Seqenenra Tao began a courageous and tragic revolt that almost show more led to the destruction of his family.In this thrilling second volume, Seqenenra's surviving son Kamose refuses an inheritance of failure, and chooses instead to continue his father's fight for the freedom of Egypt and his family. He begins his desperate sweep north, collecting fighting men from the loyal towns and villages he passes. Will his savage brilliance bring him victory or defeat? And will his acts redeem him or drive him to the brink of madness?
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The trials and tribulations of the Tao continue in scenes painted excellently by Ms. Gedge’s prose.
El prÃncipe Kamose, hijo y heredero de Sequenenra, prosigue la insurrección para expulsar a los invasores hicsos y unificar el reino y desalojar a los extranjeros. Con un ejército de cincuenta y cinco mil hombres, las victorias y devastaciones se suceden a lo largo del Nilo hasta que las tropas llegan a los muros de la inexpugnable Het-Uart, la ciudad donde se encuentra Aqenenra Apepa, el rey usurpador que ha tomado como esposa a Tani, la hermana menor del prÃncipe. Ante la prolongación del asedio y la inminencia de las inundaciones, Kamose decide esconder a sus soldados en un oasis del desierto hasta la retirada de las aguas y tender allà una trampa mortal a su enemigo. Sin embargo, a pesar de las victorias cosechadas, Kamose show more mantienen la sospecha oculta de no ser el verdadero elegido por los dioses como rey de Egipto. show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Oasis
- Original publication date
- 1999
- People/Characters
- Kamose
- Important places
- Thebes, Egypt; Egypt
- Important events
- Hyksos Period of Egypt
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PR9199.3 .G415 .O27 — Language and Literature English English Literature English literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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- 8 — Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 22
- ASINs
- 2
