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DIARY OF A TIME TRAVELER

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Meet some of history's most illustrious and interesting characters in this book that visits key moments of the past from around the world. 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. A character index at the rear gives a short biography of all the historical characters covered, and a timeline helps to contextualize the different time periods covered.

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Series Title

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Call Number

909 LON d c.1 201930228

Publisher

: Wide Eyed Editions., 2015/New York

Collation

63 p. ; col. Ill. ; 30 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-84780-704-5

Classification

909

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Edition

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Subject(s)

non-fiction
World history

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Statement of Responsibility

Nicholas Stevenson

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