Giovanni Caselli

Presents the story of a young auxiliary soldier at a fortress on Hadrian's Wall, depicting life in the Roman Army in the third century A.D.

Traces the history of the Roman Empire and the Dark Ages which followed through a description of common objects, tools, clothes, dwellings, food, and day-to-day activities of the people in both the cities and in the country.

Describes the construction of each of the Seven Wonders of the World and relates them to similar structures in ancient and modern times.

Discusses, with richly detailed and full-color pictures, the parts of the human body, how it works, etc.

Presents in brief text and illustrations an overview of western history from prehistory to the present day.

Observes a potter and his family living in Athens in 420 B.C., a time of the Olympics, a great festival to Athena, and the construction of many temples, and describes the potter at work making and decorating pots. Includes illustrations of tools and equipment he and his family might have used in their daily lives.

Reconstructs the seasonal activities and daily life of an Ice Age tribe in Europe over 15,000 years ago.

Depicts life in medieval Europe while describing a pilgrimage from Ireland across France around 600 A.D., in which travelers from a monastery follow in the footsteps of the saintly monk Columbanus and hear about his deeds.

Presents, in text and illustrations, a range of people whose way of life reveals various aspects of the society developing in Europe and America from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.

A collection of myths relating the exploits and adventures of the gods and heroes of ancient Greece.