Two boys discover their historical roots the hard way. Dominic and Sebastian are two twelve-year-old boys living on a hilly point of a bush-clad land in Coromandel, New Zealand. The land is abundant with wildlife and fruit orchards. When a strange circular shape mysteriously appears in a local maize field, Dom and Seb investigate. But something terribly powerful occurs, and the boys vanish into thin air. They find themselves not only on the other side of the planet but also over three thousand years back in time! Egypt, the superpower of the ancient world for ten centuries, is in disarray. On the brink of invasion by the Hittites, the rebel Amarna king has begun his journey in the afterlife, leaving his son, a twelve-year-old boy to be crowned as pharaoh of all Egypt. But he has also vanished. Can Dominic and Sebastian prevent political assassination and survive the perils of ancient Egypt? Will they ever get home? Find out in this adventurous, action packed first edition.

First published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Wonderful pages filled with the music of Jared's Song each character a single instrument intertwining with the others creating a symphony in words with adventurous passages, delicate movements, funny and sometimes sad melodies, resounding battles, heart stopping moments and dramatic tragedy. Elrek's Rise the third book in the series, is an amazing original story about Jared 'a legend in his own lifetime' and his son Elrek's life and adventures, the characters in the books leap into life before your eyes and are so easy to relate to even if you have not read the first books you will soon feel that the characters are more like members of your own family and you join the story with its unexpected twists and turns taking you by surprise and immersing you in the experience. Extract from book Someone above laughed and said something quite disgusting, and an arrow clanged off of Elrek's breastplate. "I'll take that as a refusal, then." He shouted. He had his standard take his horse away after he'd dismounted, and had four hundred Gold dismount, discard lances, and advance on foot with swords and shields. Elrek then approached the large gates of the castle and placed his hands against them and closed his eyes. This was Jared's trick, only sort of in reverse.

Lereon is a healthy teenager who lives in a hunting cabin with his mother, isolated from the rest of the medieval world and unaware of how to fight. But all of that is about to change when he encounters a stranger in the woods who seems to know more about him than he does. After Lereon learns that his father was a king who was overthrown by his brother when Lereon was an infant, he is told that he must find his way back to the throne if he wants to avenge his father's death and continue his legacy. With the kingdom of Berothia in disarray, Lereon begins his journey with only a sapphire ring that proves his identity and a hope that he can somehow reclaim the kingdom. But what he does not know is that his uncle is prepared to use any means possible to stop him. In this exciting fantasy, a naïve teenager on a quest to fulfill his destiny discovers he is stronger than he ever imagined he could be.

Reproduction of the original: History of the Rise of the Huguenots by Henry M. Baird

The Rise and Fall of Austria or the Habsburg Empire embraces all that is wild and wonderful in history; early struggles for aggrandizement, the fierce strife with the Turks, as wave after wave of Muslim invasion rolled up the Danube, the long conflicts and bloody persecutions of the Reformation, the thirty years' religious war, the intrigues of Popes, the enormous pride, power and encroachments of Louis XIV, the warfare of the Spanish succession and the Polish dismemberment. All these events combine in a sublime tragedy which fiction may in vain attempt to parallel.

This is a story studded with extraordinary achievements and historic moments, from the building of the pyramids and the conquest of Nubia, through Akhenaten's religious revolution, the power and beauty of Nefertiti, the glory of Tutankhamun's burial chamber, and the ruthlessness of Ramesses, to Alexander the Great's invasion, and Cleopatra's fatal entanglement with Rome. As the world's first nation-state, the history of Ancient Egypt is above all the story of the attempt to unite a disparate realm and defend it against hostile forces from within and without. Combining grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconography of power, Toby Wilkinson reveals Ancient Egypt in all its complexity.

The author of 24 Hours in Ancient Athens“tells the powerful story of how Greek history survived the meteor of Alexander and his brief world empire” (Firetrench). When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC, he left an empire that stretched from the shores of the Adriatic to the mountains of Afghanistan. This empire did not survive Alexander’s death, and rapidly broke into several successor states. These states, substantial kingdoms in their own right, dominated Asia Minor, Greece, the Levant and Egypt for the next three hundred years. While Philip Matyszak’s narrative covers their remarkable contribution of the Eastern Greeks in fields such as philosophy, science and culture, the main focus is on the rivalry, politics and wars, both civil and foreign, which the Hellenistic rulers constantly fought among themselves. As in other fields, the Successor Kingdoms were innovators in the military and diplomatic field. Indeed, their wars and diplomatic skirmishes closely presage those of eighteenth-century Europe and the superpower rivalries of the twentieth century. The complex interaction of these different kingdoms, each with its own character and evolving military systems, combined geopolitics and grand strategy with diplomatic duplicity, and relentless warfare. The epic story of the successor states is full of flawed heroes, palace intrigue, murder, treachery, incest, rebellion and conquest.

The first book to explore the importance of alchemy and its links to the occult in the period between 1320 and 1400. Alchemists didn't just try to turn metals into gold: they studied planetary influences on metals and people, refined plants and minerals in the search for medicines. This book illustrates how this branch of thought became more popular as the practical and theoretical knowledge of alchemists spread throughout England.