Water Like Stone

ISBN: 1479385638

Author: Evans, John L

Condition: New

Water Like Stone is an international adventure and love story told against a backdrop of Egyptian archaeology and aviation. Ian Cannasy, an American expatriate operating an air charter in Uganda, narrates the story of Osa Hensley, a young woman who will alter his life. From childhood, Osa is intrigued by the photograph of her great grandfather that hangs from a wall of her grandmothers home. The man is posed over a fallen obelisk covered with Egyptian hieroglyphs. Over his shoulder are snow capped mountain peaks. Tthe conundrum of the snow covered peaks and the Egyptian monument starts Osa on the research that will lead her to a career in archaeology. She learns the obelisk commemorates one of the greatest of the pharaohs, and no mountain exists in Egypt like the one in the photo. She begins a search for the mountain and the obelisk and if successful will turn Egyptology upside down. She will be betrayed, her career threatened, and her life endangered by religious fanaticism. She will discover the passion of a first love and her own capacity for self sacrifice. Her journey will take her from the halls of academia to the sands of the Sahara Desert and the rainforests of Central Africa.