The Ape Who Guards the Balance Free Audiobook Download by Elizabeth Peters

In the 19th century, a young woman named Elizabeth Peters travels from England to Egypt in search of her missing father. While she is there, she discovers an ancient human temple containing statues of Egyptian gods. There are also three large urns on pedestals and around them are tunnels built into the walls. In these tunnels, Elizabeth finds more statues and wall paintings with hieroglyphics. She realises that one of these passages leads to a hidden chamber containing an urn with a figure of a monkey carved into it.

One evening, during the reign of King Oberon, a group of people are gathered at a party. The hostess's husband is talking to her while she drinks wine. Suddenly, she shivers and falls to the floor. Soon after, the guests start to turn into apes. The few survivors must work together to find out who did it and how they can be cured before they lose their humanity forever.

The Ape Who Guards the Balance is a short story that takes place in ancient Greece. It has been told many times through ancient Greek mythology, but this version is narrated by Peters herself. The story follows Mopsus, a young boy who showed signs of great intelligence at an early age. Despite his intelligence, he was shunned and ridiculed because of his appearance. Mopsus lived with a family of apes who took care of him and taught him about the world around him. He could understand the language of animals and received their instruction to guard the balance of the earth from humans who would pollute it with their ignorance

The Ape Who Guards the Balance is a story about a scientist, Professor Cornelius Agrippa, and how he uses his medical knowledge to cure a village of people with a plague. The villagers are grateful to him, but they also want to keep him as their protector so that he can help them again if times get tough.

Elizabeth Peters has an extensive writing career, including such books as 'The Chariot of Isis', 'The Magician's Ward', and 'The Golden Fleece'. Her unique writing style inspired an upcoming audiobook, 'The Ape Who Guards the Balance', narrated by Barbara Rosenblat.

The Ape Who Guards the Balance by Elizabeth Peters is one of many audiobooks from her series of the same name. The series tells the story of Lady Anna Leonowens, who travels to Siam and becomes embroiled in a struggle between humans and their two closest primate cousins, the orangutans.