History book
Subtitle: an interactive journey
By: Marcus Cowper
Contributors: National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781426206795; 9781426206801
Subjects: World history
Other titles: National Geographic history book :
Description: You won't find dusty topics and long-dead heroes and villains in the National Geographic History Book. Turn the pages and you'll find documents, letters, journals, telegrams, posters, and artworks that you can literally pull out and examine. See for yourself, with the primary source materials that history buffs love, what really happened and who really did it. Pull out Shakespeare's will and see how he changed his mind about who got what. Examining a facsimile of the Zouche-Nuttall Codex gives you a sense of the turmoil of pre-Columbian Mexico. Take a look at a steamy love letter written by Napoleon to his wife Josephine. Marvel at the beauty of a wall fresco from first-century Pompeii. Read pages from the Gutenberg Bible, the world's first printed book. Examine a "Wanted" poster for Abraham Lincoln's assassin...and more.
Notes: "With 20 removable facsimile documents"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.