An enthralling and hilarious journey through global history in 400 connected facts!

In this blast-from-the-past adventure you’ll discover hundreds of the most mind-blowing facts from history. Hidden tombs, ghostly ships, boiled vipers, samurai warriors, snow machines, pet lions, hidden pyramids, secret codes, flaming fireballs, wooden swimsuits, sparkling jewels and many more are all woven together in this ingenious web of connected facts.

And there isn’t just one trail through these facts. Sometimes your path branches, and you can choose to fast forward or rewind to a completely different (but still connected) part of history. Where will your curiosity take you?

Reviews

Highly recommended.History FACTtopia! is the fifth book in this clever and very entertaining non-fiction series for children (and the adults in their lives). It is full of incredible information that is easily accessible for younger readers and is told with humour and colourful engaging images.

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Delightfully entertaining and full of golden nuggets of trivia that will baffle and bewilder, astonish and wow, shock and gross-out, this fact-filled romp through yesteryear is a delicious smorgasbord of info served with lashings of humour and energy… From the eye-catching front cover to the glossaries of terms, this is a historical hit that will be devoured by children and adults alike. Accessible, engaging and thoroughly enthralling, getting to grips with history has never been so much fun! Perfect for the curious, the inquisitive, the knowledge hungry, the fact collectors or anyone who wants to have their ribs tickled.

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