Amelia Peabody · Book 16
Guardian of the Horizon
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 434
- ISBN-13
- 9780060836849
- Type
- novel
About this book
Guardian of the Horizon (2004), the sixteenth entry at 434 pages, is one of two genuine outliers in the series: rather than continuing directly on from the book before it, it's framed as an episode Amelia sets down out of sequence, filling in a gap from earlier in the family's history. Publication order still places it here, between Children of the Storm and The Serpent on the Crown.
Its place in Amelia Peabody
Guardian of the Horizon is book 16 in the Amelia Peabody series. It follows Children of the Storm. It is followed by The Serpent on the Crown. See the full Amelia Peabody reading order.
Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody novels follow a formidable Victorian Egyptologist and amateur detective through four decades of archaeological digs, family drama, and murder along the Nile. Amelia Peabody Emerson — sharp-tongued, parasol-wielding, utterly unwilling to accept the limits Victorian and Edwardian society placed on women — meets her match and husband, the brilliant, foul-mouthed archaeologist Radcliffe Emerson, in the first book, and the series follows their marriage, their excavations of real…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780060588458
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780060836849