Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants

Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 95
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ISBN-13 : 9780141964836
ISBN-10 : 0141964839
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Book Synopsis Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants by : Herodotus

Download or read book Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants written by Herodotus and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So much of what we know of the Ancient World comes from Herodotus (c.490 BC - c.420 BC) that he will always remain the greatest of historians. But in addition such a large part of the entertainment value of the Ancient World comes from his enormous, omnivorous, sometimes credulous appetite for stories of distant lands and strange creatures. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries – but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.


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