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Now, when I look at the desert, I am reminded of the year I spent in Egypt -- the most definitive of my life ...
Egypt, 1977. Oliver, a geophysicist expert in oil exploration, finds himself unwillingly swept up in a world of political and mystical sabotage after his wife, Isabella, a marine archaeologist, discovers a mysterious ancient artefact, an astrolabe she′d been searching for all her life.
Oliver embarks on a journey that takes him into the secrets of Isabella′s once-wealthy Italian-Alexandrian family, and the powers of the astrolabe itself. Powers he, a fierce sceptic, refuses to accept.
Now the reluctant cu
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Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Release date: 1 May 2009
ISBN-10 : | ISBN-13: 9780732286736
Release date: 1 May 2009
ISBN-10 : | ISBN-13: 9780732286736
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