Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun
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Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun is a novel
written by Moyra Caldecott
in 1989. It was first published in Great Britain in 1989 as a paperback by Arrow Books Limited (ISBN 0-09-959850-7).
. Ambitious, ruthless and worldly: a woman who established Amun
as the chief god of Egypt, bestowing his Priesthood with unprecedented riches and power.
Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun is part of Moyra Caldecott
’s Egyptian sequence, which also includes Akhenaten: Son of the Sun
and Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra
. Chronologically, Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun takes place first.
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
written by Moyra Caldecott
Moyra Caldecott
Moyra Caldecott is a British author of historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction and non-fiction. Her works include "Guardians of the Tall Stones" and The Egyptian Sequence....
in 1989. It was first published in Great Britain in 1989 as a paperback by Arrow Books Limited (ISBN 0-09-959850-7).
Plot introduction
Ancient Egypt 3500 years ago - a land ruled by the all-powerful female king, HatshepsutHatshepsut
Hatshepsut also Hatchepsut; meaning Foremost of Noble Ladies;1508–1458 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt...
. Ambitious, ruthless and worldly: a woman who established Amun
Amun
Amun, reconstructed Egyptian Yamānu , was a god in Egyptian mythology who in the form of Amun-Ra became the focus of the most complex system of theology in Ancient Egypt...
as the chief god of Egypt, bestowing his Priesthood with unprecedented riches and power.
Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun is part of Moyra Caldecott
Moyra Caldecott
Moyra Caldecott is a British author of historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction and non-fiction. Her works include "Guardians of the Tall Stones" and The Egyptian Sequence....
’s Egyptian sequence, which also includes Akhenaten: Son of the Sun
Akhenaten: Son of the Sun
Akhenaten: Son of the Sun is a novel written by Moyra Caldecott in 1986. It was first published in 1986 as The Son of the Sun in hardback by Alison & Busby, UK.-Plot introduction:...
and Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra
Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra
Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra is a novel written by Moyra Caldecott in 1989. It was first published in 1990 as Daughter of Ra in paperback by Arrow Books Limited .-Plot introduction:...
. Chronologically, Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun takes place first.
Release details
- 1989, UK, Arrow Books Limited ISBN 0-09-959850-7, Pub date ? June 1989, paperback
- 2001, UK, Mushroom Publishing ISBN 1-899142-87-8, Pub date 1 April 2000, ebook
- 2004, UK, Bladud Books ISBN 1-84319-263-2, Pub date 1 April 2004, paperback (as a Print on DemandPrint on demandPrint on demand , sometimes called, in error, publish on demand, is a printing technology and business process in which new copies of a book are not printed until an order has been received...
paperback)