Egypt: Locus Focus
Locus Focus is hosted every Saturday at Shredded Cheddar. Write a post about your favorite setting and go share your link! Can you imagine Peter Pan without Neverland? Lemuel Gulliver without Lilliput and Brobdingnag? The Pied Piper without Hamelin? A good setting is more than just a backdrop! Join us every Saturday as we write about our favourite settings and the books that make them come alive! I've been busy and haven't made time to do this recently, although I love the idea. It gives me an excuse to go digging for pictures of settings that I like. I read Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters recently and loved it! Thanks to Allison at The Allure of Books for the recommendation! Crocodile on the Sandbank takes place in Egypt in the 1880s. Miss Amelia Peabody has embarked on a tour up the Nile to visit all the ancient places that she and her father loved to study together. She is bitten by the archaeology bug when she first visits Giza and sees the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx. This is her first impression: "I had seen engravings of the Great Pyramid and read extensively about it; I thought I was prepared for the sight. But I was not. It was so much grander than I had imagined! The massive bulk bursts suddenly on one's sight as one mounts the steep slope leading up to the rocky platform. It fills the sky. And the color! No black-and-white engraving can possibly prepare one for the color of Egyptian limestone, mellow gold in the sunlight against a heavenly-blue vault." Photo of Khafre's Pyramid and the Great Sphinx taken by Hamish2k and shared on Wikimedia Commons Miss Amelia is determined not to be one of those travelers who publishes repetitive memoirs about the…
