Prestel The Quest for Immortal. Treasures of Ancient Egypt

"With trembling hands, I made a tiny breach in the upper left hand corner... widening the hole a little, I inserted the candle and peered in... at first I could see nothing... presently... details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold-everywhere the glint of gold." • Howard Carter • Lost to antiquity, the tomb of King Tutankhamun was rediscovered by Howard Carter in 1922. Its hidden location had protected it from plundering and inside lay a world of treasures • Accompany Howard Carter as he explores the tombs of ancient Egypt and enter this mysterious world of artefacts, hieroglyphs, ancient gods and pharaohs, solving puzzles befitting a king as you go. With strange and cryptic hieroglyphs to decode, ancient mysteries to crack, and riddles worthy of the sphinx itself you'll soon be lost in the sands of time

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

Invited by the Queen of the Fairies to return to her kingdom and help in the quest for the true heart of happiness, Geronimo soon finds himself on an adventurous journey riding on the wings of a rainbow-colored dragon through seven fantastic lands

The fabled city of Timbuktu has captured the Western imagination for centuries. The search for this 'African El Dorado' cost the lives of many explorers but Timbuktu is rich beyond its legends. Home to many thousands of ancient manuscripts on poetry, history, religion, law, pharmacology and astronomy, the city has been a centre of learning since medieval times • When jihadists invaded Mali in 2012 threatening destruction to Timbuktu's libraries, a remarkable thing happened. A team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit the precious manuscripts into hiding. Based on new research and first-hand reporting, Charlie English expertly tells this story set in one of the world's most fascinating places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable

By the end of the First World War, the whereabouts of more than half a million British soldiers were unknown. Most were presumed dead, lost forever under the battlefields of northern France and Flanders • In The Searchers, Robert Sackville-West brings together the extraordinary, moving accounts of those who dedicated their lives to the search for the missing. These stories reveal the remarkable lengths to which people will go to give meaning to their loss: Rudyard Kipling's quest for his son's grave; E.M. Forster's conversations with traumatised soldiers in hospital in Alexandria; desperate attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead; the campaign to establish the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior; and the exhumation and reburial in military cemeteries of hundreds of thousands of bodies

A book which gives scientific proof of the paranormal. Psychic activity, remote viewing, the power of prayer and homeopathy are all discussed in this book which The Ecologist called 'one of the most thought-provoking reads of the year', and which has already gained a almost cult following • Sales Handles • A highly readable scientific detective story which reveals how 'the Field' a vast cobweb of energy connecting everything in the universe, past and present, is responsible for many of the most profound human mysteries • How psychics can read the future and the past; how remote viewing works - and how such techniques have been used by the CIA; how energy healing works; why homeopathy works and all sorts of other mysteries are explored by the frontier scientists Lynne McTaggart has interviewed

For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 it was discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, an ordinary, working-class boy from London turned deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist and highly respected scholar • On the way into one of history's most extraordinary stories, Masson would take tea with kings, travel with holy men and become the master of a hundred disguises; he would see things no westerner had glimpsed before and few have glimpsed since • This is a wild journey through nineteenth-century India and Afghanistan, with impeccably researched storytelling that shows us a world of espionage and dreamers, ne'er-do-wells and opportunists, extreme violence both personal and military, and boundless hope

"Крысобой из будущего и поиски пропавшей штуковины" - третья книга из серии Джима Смита "Крысобой блестящего будущего" • Когда молния ударила в фонарный столб Колина, он перенесся на миллионы лет в будущее и превратился наполовину в мальчика, наполовину в крысу, наполовину в телевизор! • В этом новом приключении будущий Крысобой видит удивительную новую сторону своего врага, злого мистера Икс, отправляется в путешествие на планету Бин и сталкивается с гонкой со временем, чтобы найти пропавшую штуковину • Книга на английском языке • From the bestselling and Roald Dahl Funny Prize-winning author of Barry Loser comes the third book in the brilliant Future Ratboy series! Perfect for readers aged 7-10 years old and fans of David Solomons, Pamela Butchart, Tom Gates and Mr Gum

Три великолепных романа нобелевского лауреата Нагиба Махфуза, впервые опубликованные общим изданием, представляют собой древнеегипетский аналог его знаменитой Каирской трилогии. Махфуз уходит корнями на тысячи лет назад, чтобы донести до нас рассказы о величественной ранней истории своей родины – рассказы о египетской знати и войнах, несчастливой любви и божественном правлении фараонов • В "Мудрости Хуфу", легендарный монарх Четвертой династии сталкивается с осзнанием грядущего конца своего правления и пониманием, что его дочь влюбилась в человека, который станет его преемником • "Радопис из Нубии" - это трагическая история харизматичного молодого фараона Меренры II и восхитительной куртизанки Радопис, чья любовная связь вызывает зависть всего египетского общества

Боги-создатели проснулись. Ужаснулись, увидев, во что люди превратили Землю, и немедленно начали наводить порядок. В итоге от Земли осталось несколько клочков суши, по которым шастают экспериментальные образцы идеальных обитателей планеты

"Новый атлас древней истории" иллюстрирует в хронологической серии карт эволюцию и перемещение рас в Европе, Средиземноморье и на Ближнем Востоке. С 50 000 г. до н.э. по четвертый век н.э. Это один из самых успешных исторических атласов из серии бестселлеров • Книга на английском языке • The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History illustrates in a chronological series of maps, the evolution and flux of races in Europe, the Mediterranean area and the Near East. From 50,000 B.C. to the fourth century A.D., it is one of the most successful of the bestselling historical atlas series

To Christina Olson, the entire world is her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family has lived in for generations, and tied to the farm by health and circumstance, Christina seems destined for a small life. Instead, by chance she becomes the inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and eventually the subject of one of the best-known paintings of the twentieth century, Christina’s World