Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #82890 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Binding: Hardcover
• 64 pages

Synopsis
Take a round-the-world trip and discover how people lived in the putrid past, from the phascinating pharaohs of ancient Egypt to the fancypants French royalty. Stuffed full of foul facts, crafty cartoons and putrid puzzles, there's a whole heap of nasty bits inside! History has never been so horrible!

Customer Reviews

Useful stocking filler for HH/Terry Deary fans or a good place to start, if new to this extensive series of books.
A lively publication, written in various fonts with facts, cartoons, puzzles, games .... packed full of vibrant colour to encourage even the most reluctant historian!

`From the horribly hilarious hit series of books - it`s history with the nasty bits left in!

Take a rotten trip around the world and discover how people lived in the putrid past.'

Learning without realising!

61 high quality matt pages, split over sections:-

Horrible Hotspots
Horrendous Hellholes
Torture and Terror
Up in Smoke
It's Criminal
Hideous Hangouts
Woeful World Wars

plus an answer to puzzles section.

Written with the typical HH humour:-

`The Tower of London'
`Welcome to the most terrifying tower of Tudor times!
This was where Henry VIII and his kids imprisoned, tortured and killed the people who messed with them!.......'
or
`Cellar of Terror'
`It is nearly midnight on November 4th 1605. In a cellar beneath Parliament, strange things are going on - involving gunpowder, treason and a plot.........'
or
`How to Petrify your Teacher - The Pompeii Way'
Your history teacher is always going on about `living history', so he'll have to volunteer for this!

You Will Need:-

one fresh history teacher
some volcanic ash (or ground up chalk)
some plaster of Paris
a few hundred years to spare (or a time machine).....'

...sorry ....it is against Amazon rules to spoil it and tell you the rest!