Description: (xxxviii) 706 pp. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; ink marks on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. Herein are stories too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: Plague in Athens 430 BC by Thucydides; The Greeks March to the Sea 401 BC by Xenophon; The Death of Socrates 399 BC by Plato; Caesar Invades Britain 55 BC by Julius Caesar; Rome Burns AD 64 by Tacitus; The Siege of Jerusalem AD 70 by Josephus; The Eruption of Vesuvius 24 August AD 79 by Pliny the Younger; The Deification of the Emperor Septimius Serverus AD 211 by Herodian; Dinner with Attila the Hun c. AD 450 by Priscus; A Viking Funeral AD 922 by Ibn Fadlan; The Green Children c. 1150 by William of Newburgh; The Murder of Thomas Becket 29 December 1170 by Edward Grim; Richard I Massacres Prisoners after Taking Acre 2 - 20 August 1191; Kublai Khan's Park c. 1275 by Marco Polo; Mishaps in Childhood 1301 - 1337 - Calendar of Coroner's Rolls; The Battle of Crecy 26 September 1346 by Sir John Froissart; The Black Death 1348 by Henry Knighton; Women Ape Men 1348 by Henry Knighton; The Capture of Guines January 1352 by Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbrook; False Mutes October 1380 - City of London Letter-books; The Peasants' Revolt May - June 1381 by Sir John Froissart; The Battle of Agincourt 25 October 1415 by Jehan de Wavrin; Norwegian Fisherfolk 1432 by Cristoforo Fioravanti; The New World January - February 1502 by Amerigo Vespucci; A Salamander 1505 by Benvenuto Cellini; Spanish Atrocities in the West Indies c. 1513 - 1520 by Bartolome de Las Casas; The Performing Ass Cairo 1516 by John Leo; Human Sacrifice Among the Aztecs c. 1520 by Jose de Acosta; The Incas' Golden Garden c. 1530 by Garcilaso de la Vega; The Progress of the English Reformation 1537 - 1538 by John London, Roger Townshend, Richard Layton and Geoffrey Chamber; With the Spaniards in Paraguay 1537 - 1540 by Hulderike Schnirdel; The Execution of Archbishop Cranmer 21 March 1556 - Anonymous; Prisoners of the Inquisition 1568 - 1575 by Miles Phillips; The Sack of Antwerp by a Spanish Army 4 November 1576 by George Gascoigne; The Arrest of the Catholic Priest Edmund Campion and His Associates 17 July 1581 - Anonymous; Some London Criminals 1581 by William Fleetwood; Babylon in 1583 by John Eldred; Natural Childbirth in India 1583 by John Huyghen Van Linschoten; Shipwreck off Mozambique August 1585 by John Huyghen Van Linschoten; A London Merchant in Cairo 1586 by John Sanderson; The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots 8 February 1586 by Robert Wynkfielde; The Seasons in Russia 1589 by Giles Fletcher; The Last Flight of the Revenge 13 September 1591 by John Huyghen Van Linschoten; Trapped in the Arctic Ice 1596 by Gerrit de Veer; A Jesuit is Tortured in the Tower 14 - 15 April 1597 by John Gerard; A Private Audience with Elizabeth I 8 December 1597 by Andre Hurault; English Merchants in Java c. 1602 by Edmund Scot; The Effects of Elizabethan Policy in Ireland 1602 by Fynes Moryson; Newfoundland Mermaid 1610 by Richard Whitbourne; Whirling Dervishes 1613 by Thomas Coryate; The Magnificence of the Great Mogul 1616 - 1617 by Sir Thomas Roe; The Great Mogul: His Cruelty 1618 by Edward Terry; The Murder of the Duke of Buckingham 23 August 1620 by Sir Dudley Carleton; Landing in New England November 1620 by William Bradford; Oliver Cromwell Writes to His Brother-in-Law after the Battle of Marston Moor 2 July 1644 by Oliver Cromwell; Circumsicion: Rome 16 January 1645 by John Evelyn; Suttee c. 1650 by Jean Baptiste Tavernier; George Fox Visits Lichfield 1651 by George Fox; Religious Observances in Dunkirk 1662 by John Greenhalgh; The Fire of London 2 September 1666 by Samuel Pepys; The Great Frost January 1684 by John Evelyn; The English Love of Fighting 1695 by Mission de Valbourg; Conditions of Life Aboard the French Galleys 1703 - 1704 by John Bion; The Battle of Schellenberg 2 July 1704 by M. de la Colonie; Robinson Crusoe Found 2 February 1709 by Woodes Rogers; Bull-Bai

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