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Greeks
Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders (Book 5)
- Author
- Sir Tony Robinson
- Narrator
- Sir Tony Robinson
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 30 August 2012
- Run Time
- 1 hour 46 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders Greeks, Sir Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about the Greeks! It's history, but not as we know it!
Find out everything you ever needed to know in this brilliant, action-packed, fact-filled book, including:
- Why the ancient Greeks were mad about olive oil
- Who Pythagoras was
- Why Alexander the Great named a city after his horse, Bucephalus, and
- How the Greeks invented the first computer, vending machine and death-ray
For more funny history facts discover Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders Egyptians.
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Details
- Author
- Sir Tony Robinson
- Narrator
- Sir Tony Robinson
- Duration
- 1 hour 46 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 August 2012
- ISBN
- 9780230766426
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Humour and jokes, Children’s / Teenage general interest: General knowledge and interesting facts, Educational: History, Ancient Greek religion and mythology
Synopsis
In Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders Greeks, Sir Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about the Greeks! It's history, but not as we know it!Find out everything you ever needed to know in this brilliant, action-packed, fact-filled book, including:- Why the ancient Greeks were mad about olive oil- Who Pythagoras was- Why Alexander the Great named a city after his horse, Bucephalus, and- How the Greeks invented the first computer, vending machine and death-rayFor more funny history facts discover Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders Egyptians.
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