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  • Title Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
  • Author Lynne Olson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House
  • Date 2023-02-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780525509479 / 052550947X
  • Weight 1.67 lbs (0.76 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.5 in (23.88 x 16.00 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Egypt - Antiquities, Egyptologists - France
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2022012856
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Booklist, 12/01/2022, Page 102
  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/2022, Page 0
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 09/01/2022, Page 21
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/21/2022, Page 0

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Lynne Olson is the New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade's Secret War, Last Hope Island, Those Angry Days, and Citizens of London. She has been a consulting historian for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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