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The shipwrecked sailor : a tale from ancient Egypt
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The shipwrecked sailor : a tale from ancient Egypt

Author: John L Foster; Lyla Pinch Brock
Publisher: Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, ©1998.
Edition/Format: Book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A tale, based on a story found in ancient papyrus scrolls, about a shipwrecked sailor who finds fortune when he is befriended by a serpent that is the Prince of the magical island of Punt.
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Material Type: Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John L Foster; Lyla Pinch Brock
OCLC Number: 40047299
Language Note: In English and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Notes: "This translation of 'The shipwrecked sailor' first appeared in Echoes of Egyptian Voices: an anthology of ancient Egyptian poetry, published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1992, and is copyright 1992 by John L. Foster"--T.p. verso.
Description: 40 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map, ports. ; 21 x 30 cm.
Responsibility: translations and hieroglyphs by John L. Foster ; illustrations by Lyla Pinch Brock.

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A tale, based on a story found in ancient papyrus scrolls, about a shipwrecked sailor who finds fortune when he is befriended by a serpent that is the Prince of the magical island of Punt.

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