Are you ready to leave behind your home in England and risk your life in the name of exploration? You will have to face starvation and angry natives if you are going to set up a colony. Read some top tips from the experts.
The ancient Egyptian pyramids are one of the wonders of the world but what was it like to work on one? Experience for yourself the lives of laborers, scribes, artists, and embalmers as they prepare the Pharaohs final resting place.
Explores what life is like living in a pharaoh's palace. Discusses the royal household, clothes, work, money, travel, and health in becoming a princess who will supervise activities while operating the palace.
Uses humor in text and illustrations to describe what life was like for Sumerians, how some of them became slaves, and what jobs slaves they were forced to do.
Tells the story of how Europeans got to know the size and shape of the northern part of the New World, an area discovered over a period of four centuries.
Examines the long and arduous journey to the Far East taken by Marco Polo and his companions, which took more than twenty years to complete and included extreme travel conditions, hostile armies, and strange animals.
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