"Crocodile on the Sandbank" by Elizabeth Peters

Amelia Peabody is an unique character -- a female in the Victorian era and she was given an education and the means to pursue her interests.  Would her character have succeeded at a different time in history?

For more information about the author, check out:
http://www.mpmbooks.com/

For interviews with the author, check out:
http://archive.archaeology.org/0503/abstracts/mertz.html

http://www.powells.com/ink/elizabethpeters.html

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