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Describes the extraordinary feats of human engineering and design from across the globe, created between the dawn of human civilization and the onset of the Dark Ages. This guide looks at the problems that the ancients solved to build various wonders. It introduces us to the travellers, ancient and modern, who saw and rediscovered various sites.

In its fifty stories it covers everything from aircraft carriers made of ice, to the origins of the omnibus. We'll toy with Roman turbines, and Greek computers, look at Renaissance hypertext and have arguments with Americans over the shape of our lightning conductors. We'll shake Scotland with earthquakes and build cars out of beans. But most of all we'll celebrate the joys and perils of living in an engineered world.

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Huzzah! A cornucopia of military blunders from one of the writers of QI

Founded by Alexander the Great and built by self-styled Greek pharaohs, the city of Alexandria at its height dwarfed both Athens and Rome. It was the marvel of its age, legendary for its vast palaces, safe harbors, and magnificent lighthouse. But it was most famous for the astonishing intellectual efflorescence it fostered and the library it produced. If the European Renaissance was the "rebirth" of Western culture, then Alexandria, Egypt, was...

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Compulsively readable and sparkling with fresh insights, this is the astonishing story of the ancient city that invented the modern world. Map.

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Justin Pollard unveils Britain's secret history . . . shhh, don't tell anyone

Seit 2013 begeistert die kanadisch-irische Erfolgsserie Vikings rund um die Abenteuer des Nordmanns Ragnar Lothbrok ein Millionenpublikum. Ihr Erfolgsrezept ist die gekonnte Kombination von historischen Tatsachen und fiktionalen Elementen. Im offiziellen Begleitbuch beleuchtet Historiker Justin Pollard auf 160 Seiten reale historische Hintergründe und wirft einen Blick hinter die Kulissen der Produktion. Er beschreibt Kultur, Religion, Schiff...

Founded by Alexander the Great and built by self-styled Greek pharaohs, the city of Alexandria at its height dwarfed both Athens and Rome. It was the marvel of its age, legendary for its vast palaces, safe harbors, and magnificent lighthouse. But it was most famous for the astonishing intellectual efflorescence it fostered and the library it produced. If the European Renaissance was the "rebirth" of Western culture, then Alexandria, Egypt, was...

Founded by Alexander the Great and built by self-styled Greek pharaohs, the city of Alexandria at its height dwarfed both Athens and Rome. It was the marvel of its age, legendary for its vast palaces, safe harbors, and magnificent lighthouse. But it was most famous for the astonishing intellectual efflorescence it fostered and the library it produced. If the European Renaissance was the "rebirth" of Western culture, then Alexandria, Egypt, was...

THE INTERESTING BITS is a veritable treasure trove of those surprising, eccentric, chaotic, baffling asides that don't fit neatly into history's official narrative. Find out how exactly Henry II of France came to have a two-foot splinter in his head, why Alexandra of Bavaria believed she had swallowed a piano, whether there really was a female Pope. These are all the gems that generations of teachers have excised from lessons on the grounds th...