The Usborne Encyclopedia of World History

By Fiona Chandler, Jane Bingham, Sam Taplin

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Tracing the history from the Big Bang to the Twenty-First Century, this comprehensive encyclopedia includes all the major civilizations, rulers and events in world history, and paints a picture of everyday life over thousands of years. Fabulous illustrations, photos, maps and a 12,000 year timechart and over 200 links to…

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1 author picked The Usborne Encyclopedia of World History as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book has been my favorite ever since I was a small child—in fact, without the passion for history that this book sparked, I don’t think my book would exist today. Throughout the book, drawings of landscapes, cutaway houses, battle scenes, or people abound.

Poring over those pages, one feels transported to an earlier age—a time when Athenian merchants hawked their goods at the foot of the Acropolis, when intrepid Polynesians sailed far across the crystal-blue Pacific, and when Viking warriors raided villages around Europe.

Simply put, the book is a time machine.

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