Publisher's Synopsis
Award-winning children's adventure fantasy novel (a "Children's Book of The Year", Australian Christian Literature Society.) First published in paperback in UK and Australia. (For ages approx 9+.) 15-year old Phillip is hooked on the past, like his late Uncle William, an Egyptologist, whose copy of "The Book of the Dead" - a passport to the Egyptian afterlife - is buried with him. Is that where he's gone? Into the Egyptian underworld? Can Phillip venture there and rescue him? What role does does a mysterious, mummified ibis bird play - a gift from his late uncle? Phillip, his pharaoh hound Dogstar, and his friends Julia and Coomber, go on an enthralling adventure beyond the gateways and guardians of Egypt's underworld.
