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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I'm already over a third of the way through it, and I think I can say I'm really enjoying it. Alas for my book budget!
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Great!
The main characters are inspired by real people. Amelia Peabody is loosely based on Amelia Edwards, author of an immensely popular travelogue called "A Thousand Miles Up the Nile" (which I created a copy of for the MR library), and Radcliffe Emerson on the famously irascible Egyptologist Sir Flinders Petrie.