Age Range: 9 - 13 years
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Hardcover: 400 pages
Language: English
ISBN / Barcode: 9781416917779
Two tantalizing tales, magically intertwined, cross cultures and span centuries as three kids set out to save the lives of three others—who just happen to live in the Middle Ages! A stone lion roars....
A sleek black cat speaks....
A faun leaps from the canvas of a painting....
When Jared,...
Features thirty-six villages from all over Tuscany from those clustered around the great cities of Lucca and Florence, which produce some of the finest olive oil and are home to some of the world's greatest works of art, to the Chianti region and the valley of the Orcia, devoted to the cultivation...
Turin's rectangular Roman plan was extended and modified during the Renaissance period. The city's magnificent streets and squares can be seen in our large and splendid plan from Blaeu's Theatrum Saubaudiae.
Superbly engraved by Guiseppe Bouchard, this large and detailed plan shows the many features of urban design and civic embellishment that have attracted visitors for centuries.
This brilliant vignette of seventeenth-century Rome, its Baroque architecture, and its relationship to the Catholic Church brings to life the friendship between a genius and his patron with an ease of writing that is rare in art history.
By 1650, the spiritual and political power of the Catholic...
The legends of early Rome are among the most memorable of any in the world. They are also highly instructive. They taught generations of Romans about duty and obedience. Duty and obedience might not seem to amount to much these days, but it was precisely these virtues that made Rome great. The...
Here are more than 40 of the best train journeys in the world that will appeal to railroad enthusiasts as well as armchair travelers!
These journeys include:
Fascinating destinations and routes
Tourist lines as well as commuter trains
Luxury travel with five-star hotel services
Train travel...
