Author: David Pickering
Publisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780061241857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A detailed pocket reference to everything from pyramids and mummies to pharaohs and hieroglyphics provides a wealth of information on ancient Egyptian culture, in an illustrated guide that also includes coverage of the region's modern life. Original.
Unearthing Ancient Egypt (Collins Gem)
Author: David Pickering
Publisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780061241857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A detailed pocket reference to everything from pyramids and mummies to pharaohs and hieroglyphics provides a wealth of information on ancient Egyptian culture, in an illustrated guide that also includes coverage of the region's modern life. Original.
Publisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780061241857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A detailed pocket reference to everything from pyramids and mummies to pharaohs and hieroglyphics provides a wealth of information on ancient Egyptian culture, in an illustrated guide that also includes coverage of the region's modern life. Original.
Ancient Egypt (Collins Gem)
Author: David Pickering
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007596707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
All the essential facts on ancient Egypt covering mummification, the pharaohs, the pyramids and the mysterious rituals.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007596707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
All the essential facts on ancient Egypt covering mummification, the pharaohs, the pyramids and the mysterious rituals.
Pirates (Collins Gem)
Author: David Pickering
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007551126
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
An entertaining and authoritative introduction to the world of piracy – history comes to life through a compelling factual narrative and enlightening illustrations.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007551126
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
An entertaining and authoritative introduction to the world of piracy – history comes to life through a compelling factual narrative and enlightening illustrations.
Ancient Rome (Collins Gem)
Author: David Pickering
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007551142
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
From the Colosseum to Hadrian’s Wall, Gem Ancient Rome shows us how Rome’s vast empire laid the foundations of today’s civilisation.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007551142
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
From the Colosseum to Hadrian’s Wall, Gem Ancient Rome shows us how Rome’s vast empire laid the foundations of today’s civilisation.
Pirates
Author: Collins UK Staff
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780061241727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Yarr Matey! Pirates covers everything from peg legs to parrots, including: Profiles of real pirates from John Paul Jones and Blackbeard to Sir Francis Drake What life was like on board a pirate ship Pirates from ancient times to the modern age
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780061241727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Yarr Matey! Pirates covers everything from peg legs to parrots, including: Profiles of real pirates from John Paul Jones and Blackbeard to Sir Francis Drake What life was like on board a pirate ship Pirates from ancient times to the modern age
Collins Gem Webster's Dictionary
Author: Eugene Ehrlich
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780060812003
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
REFERENCE
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780060812003
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
REFERENCE
Cries from the Lost Island
Author: Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756415780
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"Sixteen-year-old Hal Stevens is a budding historical scholar from a small town in Colorado. A virtual outcast at high school, he has only two friends: Roberto the Biker Witch and Cleo Mallawi. Cleo claims to be the reincarnation of Queen Cleopatra. She also believes she's being stalked by an ancient Egyptian demon, Ammut, the Devourer of the Dead. But when Hal and Roberto find Cleo murdered in the forest near her home, it appears she may have been telling the truth. Her last request sends them journeying to Egypt with famed archaeologist Dr. James Moriarity, where it quickly becomes clear that Cleo has set them on the search of a lifetime: the search for the lost graves of Marc Antony and Cleopatra."--
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756415780
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"Sixteen-year-old Hal Stevens is a budding historical scholar from a small town in Colorado. A virtual outcast at high school, he has only two friends: Roberto the Biker Witch and Cleo Mallawi. Cleo claims to be the reincarnation of Queen Cleopatra. She also believes she's being stalked by an ancient Egyptian demon, Ammut, the Devourer of the Dead. But when Hal and Roberto find Cleo murdered in the forest near her home, it appears she may have been telling the truth. Her last request sends them journeying to Egypt with famed archaeologist Dr. James Moriarity, where it quickly becomes clear that Cleo has set them on the search of a lifetime: the search for the lost graves of Marc Antony and Cleopatra."--
Ancient Egypt
Author: New York Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Legions of Rome
Author: Stephen Dando-Collins
Publisher: Quercus
ISBN: 1623652014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 837
Book Description
No book on Roman history has attempted to do what Stephen Dando-Collins does in Legions of Rome: to provide a complete history of every Imperial Roman legion and what it achieved as a fighting force. The author has spent the last thirty years collecting every scrap of available evidence from numerous sources: stone and bronze inscriptions, coins, papyrus and literary accounts in a remarkable feat of historical detective work. The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 provides a detailed account of what the legionaries wore and ate, what camp life was like, what they were paid and how they were motivated and punished. The section also contains numerous personal histories of individual soldiers. Part 2 offers brief unit histories of all the legions that served Rome for 300 years from 30BC. Part 3 is a sweeping chronological survey of the campaigns in which the armies were involved, told from the point of view of particular legions. Lavish, authoritative and beautifully produced, Legions of Rome will appeal to ancient history enthusiasts and military history buffs alike.
Publisher: Quercus
ISBN: 1623652014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 837
Book Description
No book on Roman history has attempted to do what Stephen Dando-Collins does in Legions of Rome: to provide a complete history of every Imperial Roman legion and what it achieved as a fighting force. The author has spent the last thirty years collecting every scrap of available evidence from numerous sources: stone and bronze inscriptions, coins, papyrus and literary accounts in a remarkable feat of historical detective work. The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 provides a detailed account of what the legionaries wore and ate, what camp life was like, what they were paid and how they were motivated and punished. The section also contains numerous personal histories of individual soldiers. Part 2 offers brief unit histories of all the legions that served Rome for 300 years from 30BC. Part 3 is a sweeping chronological survey of the campaigns in which the armies were involved, told from the point of view of particular legions. Lavish, authoritative and beautifully produced, Legions of Rome will appeal to ancient history enthusiasts and military history buffs alike.
The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West
Author: David J. Collins, S. J.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316239497
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 897
Book Description
This book presents twenty chapters by experts in their fields, providing a thorough and interdisciplinary overview of the theory and practice of magic in the West. Its chronological scope extends from the Ancient Near East to twenty-first-century North America; its objects of analysis range from Persian curse tablets to US neo-paganism. For comparative purposes, the volume includes chapters on developments in the Jewish and Muslim worlds, evaluated not simply for what they contributed at various points to European notions of magic, but also as models of alternative development in ancient Mediterranean legacy. Similarly, the volume highlights the transformative and challenging encounters of Europeans with non-Europeans, regarding the practice of magic in both early modern colonization and more recent decolonization.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316239497
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 897
Book Description
This book presents twenty chapters by experts in their fields, providing a thorough and interdisciplinary overview of the theory and practice of magic in the West. Its chronological scope extends from the Ancient Near East to twenty-first-century North America; its objects of analysis range from Persian curse tablets to US neo-paganism. For comparative purposes, the volume includes chapters on developments in the Jewish and Muslim worlds, evaluated not simply for what they contributed at various points to European notions of magic, but also as models of alternative development in ancient Mediterranean legacy. Similarly, the volume highlights the transformative and challenging encounters of Europeans with non-Europeans, regarding the practice of magic in both early modern colonization and more recent decolonization.