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Diary of a Time Traveller

by Nicholas Stevenson and David Long - £14.99  Wide Eyed Editions (2015)
hardback    ISBN 13: 9781847806369 | ISBN 10: 1847806368

Meet some of the most interesting people in history in this time-traveling book that visits more than 25 exciting times and places.
 
When young Augustus falls asleep in history class, Professor Tempo decides to teach him a lesson and show him that history isn’t boring at all!
 
She hands him a magic diary, all he needs to do is write the time and place to travel there. Together they head out on a whistle-stop tour of history through the ages to meet some of the world’s finest explorers, inventors, leaders, writers, composers and painters, including Albert Einstein, Mozart, Louis XIV, Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Christopher Columbus Genghis Khan, Emperor Titus in Rome, athletes at the very first Olympic Games, Tutankhamen in Egypt and even Palaeolithic man as he discovers fire.
 
Each double page spread introduces a different time and place, with an introductory text from Augustus which explains the sights and sounds, and accompanying captions from the Professor which provide key facts.

(Price & availability last checked: October 2015)

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