Giles Laroche

Who lived in our world's ancient places? How did they survive? Travel back to the lost cities of Babylon, Karnak, Herculaneum, Mesa Verde, Angkor Wat, Great Zimbabwe, Easter Island (or Rapa Nui), Tenochtitlan, Machu Picchu, Fatehpur Sikri, Jamestown, Caughnawaga, and Akrotiri. See why these civilizations were lost--and how they were found! -back cover.

Sobre altas cumbres o en islas remotas, junto a desiertos, ríos o mares..., antaño prosperaron antiguas ciudades. Algunas formaban parte de grandes imperios; otras eran pequeñas e independientes. Muchas perduraron durante siglos, incluso milenios, y experimentaron grandes cambios hasta finalmente desaparecer. Sin embargo, en las ruinas de sus edificios y monumentos podemos hallar pistas sobre su pasado. ¿Quiénes vivían en aquellos lugares? ¿Por...

Alexander the monkey finds an ordinary-looking box with spots of color inside, through which he journeys to many bright landscapes of different colors. Each page has a hole revealing the next color he will find.

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"Learn about the interesting ways that different animals eat"--

Describes various types of space which are sacred to different religions, including churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, and other shrines.

After reading about faraway lands, a young girl closes her eyes and imagines all the wonderful places a road could take her, from a cave full of treasure to a witch's house and even to Mexico.