Tag: Egypt

Ozymandias by Shelley

April is National Poetry Month, so today I write about Ozymandias, a sonnet by Shelley, first published in 1818. Shelley wrote this poem after a statue of Ramesses II was found in Egypt.  Ozymandias  I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert…

Whiplash River by Lou Berney

Whiplash River by Lou BerneyWilliam Morrow PaperbacksISBN 978-0-06-211528-7July 10, 2012320 pages Whiplash River is the second of two books in a series by author Lou Berney. The settings for this mystery/thriller are Belize and Egypt, specifically Ambergris Caye near Belize and Cairo, the capital of Egypt. “Shake” Bouchon is a chef who left his crime-filled…