National Geographic Mysteries of History

by Robert Stewart

Book Overview

The past holds many secrets. We don't know whether the Chinese beat Columbus to America or why the pharaohs built the pyramids of Egypt. How much truth is there to the whole King Arthur legend? Did... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792262328
• ISBN13: 9780792262329
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: National Geographic Kids
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Very Informative!

The kids and the adults like this book. It's always laying around somewhere in the house, never on the book shelf.

A must for any history lover

Published by National Geographic, this is a history book that takes many taken-for-granted events (such as Columbus and Pearl Harbor) and completely re-tells the event using recently discovered or little known evidence. Set up in the form of question and answer, it takes about twenty points in history and re-examinens them, leaving you astounded and wondering how much about history you really do know. I enjoyed this book a lot, especially since history interests me, although I wouldn't give it five stars. Some of the events examined, such as Stonehenge and the pyramids, didn't provide that much new information but seemed simply to end up confirming knowledge that many people already know or would with basic research. But other points in history, such as the death of Napolean or the possibility of the Chinese discovering America, was completely new and extremely interesting. Maybe not worth buying new but definitely used.