The Book of the Master of the Hidden Places

CLOSE to the verge of the immense desert which stretches its arid wastes across the whole breadth of the continent to the shore of the Western Ocean, just at the apex of the famous delta which marks the meeting-point of Upper and Lower Egypt, at the very spot where the busy life of the earliest civilisation on record was bordered by the vast and barren solitude, stands the most majestic and most mysterious monument ever erected by the hand of man.