Product Description

Learn amazing facts about the lifestyles and skills of past societies, and how they developed through time. Compare the way farming methods, fashions, sports, religious beliefs and use of language changed from country to country throughout the world. Photographs and drawings of many historical objects and buildings, from axes and sickles to a Stone Age long house and an Indian sweat lodge, help set the themes in context of daily life, place and period. Step-by-step projects such as how to make an ancient Indian board game, Celtic oatcakes and a Japanese theatre mask all bring the past alive. This volume explores the ideas, discoveries and beliefs that have shaped the human race. Packed with full-colour photographs and illustrations this series takes a thematic approach to world history.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1611083 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-26
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 264 pages

About the Author
Dr John Haywood is an honorary research Fellow at Lancaster University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain. He has written and contributed to many history books.

Customer Reviews

Admirable,accessible, direct, learned and fun for adults and for kids.
This is a high quality volume. The writing style is beautifully lucid, direct and comprehensive. Supposedly written for 10 year olds, it is a book which does justice both to its subject and to adult readers in particular. Nonetheless, there are "Make your own..." activities spaced throughout the book which will get the kids involved too. This makes the book brilliantly interesting to the whole family. If only all text for adults were written in both such a scholarly and accessible way!