The Cat of Bubastes

By: George Alfred Henty

Narrated by: Jim Hodges

Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

In this, the Henty novel covering the oldest time period of any, listeners will learn much about the domestic life, customs, religion, and military system of ancient Egypt. Amuba, a prince of the Rebu nation on the shores of the Caspian Sea, with his charioteer Jethro, is carried into slavery after losing a battle with the Egyptians. They become servants of the house of Ameres, an Egyptian high priest, and are quite happy there until the priest's son accidentally kills the sacred cat of Bubastes. The locals rise up in rage and kill Ameres, and Jethro and Amuba must escape with the high priest's son and daughter. After crossing the desert to the Red Sea, they eventually make their way back to freedom.

Public Domain (P)2006 Jim Hodges Productions

Top notch !!!

Such wonderful books being so obscure today it's quite sad. however, this group who put together these audiobooks of the Henty classic novels should be applauded. The narrator, who seems to have done all of them, is quite excellent. His different characterizations are quite distinct and believable. I recommend these quite highly.

Meh meh meh meh

loved it definitely recommend it to every person that I may see or meet or bump into. really good book for the time period

Very interesting look at Egypt!

Much of that part of history seems veiled in shadow and unknown. I enjoyed this story because I don't know much about the history of that era / part of the world. It's historical fiction, so the outcome isn't very plausible. But on the whole I really enjoyed it. Enjoyed learning more about the Egyptians and Hebrews. I struggle with Jim Hodges as a reader, but you just have to give it a chance and once you're into the story you forget about the narration.

The Cat of Bubastes

Excellent book! And the reader was so good! My 12 and 8 year old loved it!

The Cat of Bubastes

Great book restated facts a few times and at some parts of us boring. But other wise this is a great book. At times it is a tad gory

one God or many?

I particularly enjoyed the theme in the later part of the book of how the characters question who's gods are the most effective and how they resolve that question. It''s not a theme that I expected in the pagan world of Egypt.

Great Book

Loved it! My daughter and I enjoyed listening to this book together. We giggled at the voice of Jethro, it made us enjoy the story even more. I feel like it was slow start but overall a great story!!!!

Loved it

It’s got a little bit of a slow start but all in all I really enjoyed reading it!

such a great story

I can see why this is a popular Henty book. my whole family thoroughly enjoyed it- 12 yr old son, teen daughters and mom and dad. I do not recommend this for very young children, there is some war and other 'battle' type scenes with some unfortunate looses. most not described in too gory of details, but still not appropriate for certain listeners. Such an enjoyable listen there were times we didn't want a chapter to end! This book has it all, action, cliff hangers, romance, War, history.... the chapters are a nice length to listen to over lunch.

Story was interesting, but the narration was poor.

The narration detracted from the book. The story is read as though it is a story book being read to very young children. I would not choose a book read by this narrator again.