First published in the USA in 2015 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First published in the UK in 2016 by Head of Zeus Ltd
Copyright © 2015 by Susan Brind Morrow
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ISBN (HB) 9781784972387
ISBN (E) 9781784972370
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint excerpts from Alexandre Piankoff ’s The Pyramid of Unas: Egyptian Texts and Representations, volume 5. Copyright © 1968, 1996 Bollingen/Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.
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