Publisher's Synopsis
"In the third book of the series, The Camel Driver, the vandalism of a world-famous museum diorama leads Przewalski into the grisly past of human taxidermy, a lurid trial, a Neanderthal infant, and an archaeological bombshell worth killing for. Arab Courier Attacked by Lions, a world-famous diorama at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, is vandalized in the middle of the night. The belly of the taxidermied camel has been slit open. Police find bits of flesh and fiber in the sand below. The flesh is from an infant, the fibers from an oiled cloth used to mummify cadavers. The diorama depicts the sudden, ferocious attack by two Barbary lions on a Bedouin courier crossing the Sahara in the heat of the midday sun. It was created by a French taxidermist and naturalist for the 1867 Paris World Exposition, where it won the Prix D'Or, the gold medal. The Carnegie hires Harry Przewalski to uncover the macabre history of Arab Courier. Who is the ca
