Hideaway

by RuthThomas (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.25

  This is the extraordinary life story of Giovanni Belzoni - engineer, barber, monk, actor and circus strongman (where he later earned his title, The Great Belzoni) - who became one of the giants of 19th-century Egyptian archaeology. Sometimes maligned as a tomb robber, Giovanni Battista Belzoni is perhaps the most important and yet least remembered explorer and archaeologist of the 19th and 20th centuries. Giovanni Belzoni was the first person to penetrate the heart of the second pyramid at Giza and the first European to visit the oasis of Siwah and discover the ruined city of Berenice on the Red Sea. In 1823, at the age of 45, Belzoni died of fever trying to reach the mysterious city of Timbuktu.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1994

  $29.70

  Kidnapped! Leah didn't trust Arthur and Lil one bit. It was Jack, with his captivating style and reckless nerve who wanted to look inside the camper van. And Charlie, being Charlie, had to copy, just to be the same as Jack. And, of course, it was Jack who found the jewels...After that there was no turning back. The three children are driven across country and dumped right in the middle of Dartmoor. Here in the wilderness they must learn to survive against a backdrop of desolate country and mounting personal conflict.