Peter Dennis

Learn the story of a ruined castle on the top of a hill, from it being built to tourists wandering among the ruins.

"Widely acknowledged as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's adventure story of a shipwrecked sailor became an instant classic upon its publication in 1719 and the yardstick for countless castaway narratives to follow." "Robinson Crusoe, an English sailor, finds himself marooned on a desert island after the rest of his shipmates drown in a terrible wreck. He survives on the island for nearly three decades, domesticating livestock, cultivating plants,...

"Looks at the men and women whose research and discoveries have changed the world, tracing the history of scientific ideas from ancient civilizations to the present."--Cover.

Follows the construction and life of a typical castle through time.

Summarizes 100 notable inventions and discoveries of ancient and modern times, from 3,000,000 B.C. to the beginning of the twenty-first century A.D.

Using thumb indexes, zoom through time--minutes, days, years, or sometimes even centuries--from one page to the next.

With each page moving forward in time this book examines the causes and results of a volcano, known as Vesuvius, and describes how the ruins of Pompeii were discovered.

A history of the Crusades, the series of wars fought by knights to defend Christianity in the Holy Land.